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Copyright, 1897, 

BY 

A. V. & W. H. GOODPASTURE. 



LIFE OF 



Jefferson Dillard Goodpasture; 



TO WHICH IS APPEXDKD 



A GENEALOGY OF THE FAMILY OF 
JAMES GOODPASTURE. 



BY HIS SONS 



A. V. AND W. H. GOODPASTURE. 

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CUMBERI.AND Presbyterian Publishing House. 

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PREFACE. 

This book was not written, primarily, for the benefit of 
the public, but as a loving- tribute to a venerated father, 
and for the pleasure and encourag-ement it may be to his 
family. Many things mig-ht otherwise have been omitted 
and others elaborated, but the authors have kept steadily 
in view the objects soug^h to be attained. 

It makes no pretentions ; if it meets the expectation and 
approval of those who knew and loved him, it will have 
achieved their fullest aspirations. 
Nashviixe, October 1, 1897. 



CHAPTER I. 

The country commonly called the 
The Mountain ^i^^^i^ij^ District of Middle Ten- 
District. , . , . 

nessee may be said, m general terms, 

to extend northeastwardly, hetween the Cumherland 
Mountains and the Cumberland and Caney Fork Kivei-s, 
from a line dra^vn lengthwise through the center of the 
State, to the Kentucky line, embracing the counties of 
Overton, "\Vhit«, Jackson, Putnam, Fentress, Clay and 
Pickett. It is possibly the most imperfectly known and 
least appreciated portion of the State, owing to its in- 
accessibility, the rest of the country being many years 
in advance of it in matter of transportation. The child 
born there fifty years ago, was taught to expect a rail- 
road through the ]\Iountain District before he reached 
his majority, and in his turn lield out the same delusive 
hope to liis own children. Many of its ambitious young 
men sought honor and wealth in more inviting fields, 
and those who remained, finding little opportunity for 
individual enterprise and development, spent sufficient 
effort in acquiring a com})etency, to have made them 
eminent in a more favored community. Still the coun- 
try possessess great natural advantages, especially to the 
manufacturer, on account of its vast mineral deposits, 
and unsurpassed water power, and will one day reach a 
degree of prosperity for which life has hitherto been too 
short to wait* 



6 JEFFKKSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

The Mountain District is distinguished as well for the 
beauty and variety as for the bold and rugged character 
of its topographical features. Its towering hills wall 
in picturesque coves; and its beautiful valleys are fur- 
rowed by impetuous streams, often forming magnificent 
cascades, like those on the Caney Fork, Calfkiller and 
Eoaring Rivers and their tributaries, whose water 
powers cannot bo excelled. 

In 1803, F. A. Michaux, the great 
Roaring River. .,, , ,. , ,., t ., . 

trench naturalist, alter describing 

the many falls of Roaring River, following each other 
in rapid succession, and making the confused noise that 
suggested its name; the great height of its banks, rising, 
as ho declares, from eighty to a hundred feet; its im- 
mense caverns, some of which were celebrated for the 
dyestone they contained; the large rivulets that ter- 
minated their windings at its steep banks, whence they 
fell murmuring into its bed, forming beautiful cascades, 
several fathoms wide; the many varieties of trees and 
shrubs skirting its margin, especially tlie wild magnolia, 
so celebrated for the beauty of its flower and foliage, 
declared that, "All these circimistances give the banks 
of Roaring River a cool and pleasing aspect, which I 
have never witnessed before, on the bajiks of other 
rivers." 

It was on the head waters of this beautiful stream 
that the "Long Hunters," . who spent eight or nine 
months of the years 17G9-1T70, in the Cumberland 
Valley, buried one of their party — the first white man 
killed in Middle Tennessee. They had proceeded down 
the Cumberland River from their cam]) in Wayne 
County, Kentucky, till they reached Obeds River, which 



OVERTON COUNTY ESTABLISHED. 7 

received its name from Obediali Terrill, a member of 
their party. They then came to Iloaring lliver, and 
Avhile hunting on Maitthews Creek, one of its tributaries, 
Eobert Crockett was andnished and killed by a i)arty of 
seven or eight Indians, who were traveling IS'orth on the 
war trace leading from the Cherokee nation towards the 
Shawnee tribe. 

All the ^Mountain District was not 
Overton County ,^^^,^^ ^^^. g,,,ttieiuent at the same 
Established. 

time. 13y the treaty of Holston, in 

1T91, the Indian line was made to begin at a point on 
Cumberland Kiver, from which a southwest line would 
strike the ridge that divides the waters of Cumberland 
from those of Duck iiiver, forty miles above Xashville. 
This line ran two miles and a half east of Livingston, 
and divided the Mountain District into two almost ecjuai 
parts. The west was open to settlement, but the east 
was reserved to the Cherokee nation, and was commonly 
called the wilderness. 

By an act of the General Assembly, in 1798, the line 
of the Indian reservation was made the eastern boundary 
of Sumner County, which, in 1799, was reduced to its 
constitutional limits, and the new counties of Smith 
and Wilson estabhshed out of its eastern territory. Two 
years later. Smith County was reduced, and the county 
of Jackson erected, extending to the wilderness. By 
the treaty of Tellico, in 1805, the Indian title to the 
wilderness was extinguished, and from that time the 
whole of the Mountain District was open to settlement. 

The next year Overton County was established. It 
lay on both sides of the Indian line, and included, be- 
sides its present limits, all of the counties of Fentress 



8 JEFFKKSON DILLARD GOODPASTUKE. 

and Pickett, and parts of Clay, Putnam, C'liniberland, 
]Morg"an and Scott. It was named for Judge John 
Overton (lT(>G-lS3o), a native of Virginia, who early 
emigrated to Tennessee, and under appointment of the 
l^egislature, negotiated the compact with North 
Carolina, by which the State of Tennessee was author- 
ized to perfect titles to lands reserved under the act of 
cession, which had just been ratified by Congress, and 
Ihially settled the hot dispute I)et\veen Xorth Carolina, 
Tennessee and the United States, respecting the public 
lands in this State. At this time he was one of the 
judges of the Superior Court of Law and Equity, having 
been a])pointed in 180 1. to fill the vacancy occasioned 
by the resignation of Andrew Jackson. 

From the best information now to l^e 
The Goodpasture ^ .^ j,^^.j.^. ^^ ^^ |^.,^.^. ,,^,^.^^ ^:^ 

Family. '/ . 

brothers and two sisters, nameiy, 

James, John, Abraham, Isaac, Cornelius, Solomon, 
lOlizabeth and Martha (iood]>asture. who emigrated from 
the region of Wolf's Hill, in Virginia, sometime in the 
latter i)art of the eighteenth century. They seem to 
have come first to Tennessee, whence most of them 
moved to Kentucky, and settled near Owingsviile, in 
Bath County. Cornelius died in that county, and 
Solomon volunteered in the war of 1813, and was proba- 
bly killed, as he was never heard of afterwards. Of the 
two sisters, Elizabeth married and moved to ^lissouri, 
and Mai-tha raised a family near Owingsviile. John did 
not remain long in Kentucky, but moved to Wan-en 
County, Ohio. Isaac married and left children, but 
their location is not known to the writer. Abraham, 
wbo is said to have reached Bath County about the year 



JAMES GOODPASTURE. 9 

1795, made it his permanent home, and hecame the an- 
cestor of the large and influential family of Good- 
}>astures in and around Owiiigsville. 

James Goodpasture, with whose 
James Goodpasture. ,, ., .' . , 

lanuiy we are more intimately con- 
cerned, was well advanced in years when he came to 
Tennessee. His oldest st)n. William, had already mar- 
ried, and remained in Mrginia, where he has many 
worthy descendants. lie first located in the neighbor- 
hood, as neighbors were then counted, of Southwest 
Point, a Federal fort, at the junction of Clinch and 
llolston llivcrs, on the ea.stern border of the Indian 
reservation. The place wa,s then in Knox County, about 
a mile from Kingston, now the county site of Koane 
County. One of his last acts while a citizen of Knox 
County was to sign a petition to the Legislature, praying 
the erection of a new county. As it is the only paper 
to wliich the wiitcr has found his name attached, it is 
hero given in full. 

"To the General xVssembly of the State of Tennessee: 
"We, the snbscriljers, living in Knox County, below 
the mouth of Turkey Creek, or north of Clinch, petition 
that Knox County may be divided, so as to leave the 
same a constitutional county, and that a new county be 
formed, so as to contain therein a part of the tract of 
country lying between the river Holston and Clinch, 
and above Southwest Point, and a part of that tract of 
country lying north of Clinch, and we, as in duty bound, 
will ever pray. July 15, 1799." 

This petition was signed in fair and legible hands, by 
James Goodpaeture and Jno. Goodpaster, and by Jacob 



io JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

Gardenhire, John Gilliland, John Eldridge, James Cope- 
hmd, and many others, who afterwards became leading 
citizens of Overton and adjoining counties. The 
ciiiioiis fact will he noted, that James spelled the final 
syllahle of his name "tnre," while his son, John, spelled 
it "tei'.'' Afterwards, John and all his family adopted 
liis father's orthography, hut the descendants of his 
r.ncle, Aln-aham, of Bath County, Kentucky, and per- 
lia})s other branches of the family, adhere to the fhial 
'"ter." Such small ditTerence in orthography is not re- 
ma rkalde, however, in an age and country which took 
such astomshing liberty with men's names as to call 
Cha|)in, Chapel; Barksdale, Basel; Christian, Christy; 
Chowaiing, Tunin; and Howard, Hoard. 

The General Assemblv did not grant 
The Walton Road. ; % 

the prayer ot tlie petitioners. But, 

as we have seen, it established the new county of Smith 
out of the eastern ten'itory of Sumner, extending to the 
line of the Indian reservation, and the Goodpastures and 
some of their neighbors determined to move to this new 
county. It lay directly across the wilderness from their 
homo near Southwest Point. There had long been a 
trace across the mountain from Southwest Point to the 
Cumberland settlements. Francis Baily traveled it in 
1790), and has left an interesting account of his journey. 
But at the time the Goodpastures crossed the mountain 
a wagon road had been recently marked out, under 
authority of the General Assembly, between Southwest 
Point and the mouth of Caney Fork Kiver, where Car- 
thage was afterwards established. The work was the 
enterprise of Capt. William Walton (1760-1816), a native 
of Birtie County, North Carolina, who had enlisted at 



THE WALTON ROAD. Ii 

the age of seventeen, as a private in the Revolutionary 
war, and served till its close in 1783, coming out with 
the rank of captain. He emigrated to the Cumberland 
settlement in 1785, and located his military land war- 
rant on the north bank of the Cumberland River, at its 
confluence with Caney Fork, in 1786. The road, which 
still bears liis najne, was about a hundred miles in 
length, and contained four "stands" for the accommoda- 
tion of travelers. Coming west, the first of these was at 
Kimbrough's, on the eastern foot of the mountain; the 
second, at Crab Orchard, a once famous place on the 
mountain plateau, in Cumberland County; the third, at 
White Plains, in Putnam County, on the westeni foot 
of the mountain; and the fourth, near Pekin, also in 
Putnam County. The road was completed in 1801. In 
the fall of 1802, Michaux writes of this road: 

"The road that crosses this part of the Indian temtory 
cuts through the mountains in Cumberland; it is as 
broad and commodious as those in the environs of Phila- 
delphia, in consequence of the amazing number of 
emigrants that travel through it, to go and settle in the 
western coimtiy. It is, notwithstanding, in some places 
very rugged, but nothing near so much as the one that 
leads from Strasburg to Bedford in Pennsylvania. 
About forty miles from Nashville we met an emigrant 
family in a carnage, followed by their negroes on foot, 
that had performed their Journey without accident. 
Little boards, painted black and nailed upon trees, in- 
dicate to travelers the distance they have to go." 

In the year 1800, when the Goodpastures crossed the 
wilderness, the road was neither so good nor so safe as 
it was when Michaux traveled it, although, even then, it 



12 JEFFERSON DILLAKD GOODPASTURE. 

was not cont;idercd prudent to travel it, except in parties, 

on account of roving bands of Indians, one of which ho 

met hefore he reached Southwest Point. 

John Good])asture first intended to 
John Goodpasture. 

settle m Iiickorv Valley, Wliite 

County, but the title to his land proving bad he located 
on lUiifalo Creek, near the jn-csent village of Hilham. in 
Oven on County. There were then few settlers in this 
section of country. His nearest neighbor, for a time, 
was one Anderson, who lived eight miles distant. A 
\\ andering Indian was sometimes seen, and a few buffalo 
were still to l>e. found. The country was wild and l)eau- 
tiful. Its surface was rough and broken, but the valleys 
were covered with luxuriant cane brakes, and the hills 
bore so abuiulantJy the wild pea vine, that stock would 
fatten in the woods. He did not have to feed his stock, 
winter or sununer. Besides, thei-e were the other tw^o 
imjiortant jtoints always considered by the pioneer, 
namely, wood and wafer. There was no finer timbered 
country in the Mountain District than the region around 
Hilham. Buffalo Creek was a beautiful little stream, 
fed by many of the never failing springs, so much sought 
after by the first settlers. It should be remembered that 
the river bottoms were quite unhealthy when the coun- 
try was new, and for tliis reason the pioneers were 
deterred from occuppng them. 

Not long after the immigration of the Goodpa.stures, 
came also William Bryan, a native of Virginia, who, 
with his family, settled at the Hiram Allen place, on 
Flat Creek, in the same neighljorhood. Here, in 1803, 
John Goodpasture was married to his dawghter, Margei^. 
They began life poor, but by industry and economy they 




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JOHN GOODPASTURK. 13 

were enabled to make a comfortable living, and to give 
each of their children a common school education, siicli 
as the country afforded. They raised a family of fifteen 
children, fourteen of their own. and a nejihew, Jefferson, 
the son of James (xoodpasture, deceased, all of whom 
survived them, excejit Andrew, who died in the State of 
Illionis after he had reached his majority, and left the 
])arental roof. They had fii-st lived in a log cahin. such 
as was common among .pioneers, but in 1804, Mr. Good- 
pasture built a two story,, weather])oarded, hewn log 
house, with a kitchen in the rear, connected with the 
main part of the home Ijy an enclosed hallway, which 
served them as a dining room. In this house they lived, 
without intermission, from that time until their deaths, 
whicli both occurred in 1864. 

Plain and unpretentious as it wa.« this humble dwell- 
ing saw more of the 1)right sunshine of a liappy home, 
and less of the dark shadows of sorrow and distress, than 
many more imposing structures — even of the i)resent 
dav. I'nd'"- ;;.- .oof. seven little boys and seven little 
girls were horn into the world. Xcver in want and 
never idle, the years rolled on, and they grew to he 
seven honest, self-supporting. Christian men, and seven 
virtuous, domestic, ])ious women. There was never a 
death in that old house from the day it was built until 
the master and mistress, whom it had sheltered for sixty 
years, in ripe old age — eighty-six and seventy-nine — 
within two months of each other, were gathered to their 
fathers, and left it tenantless; for no one of the tifteen 
children any longer called it home. 

John Gootlpasture was a man of strong, positive char- 
acter. Firm and just, he was at the same time so con- 



14 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

h^t'i'vativc and liberal that he iiever liad a hiwyiiit in his 
life, and iiiaiutained at all times the utmost respect and 
conHdence of his neighboi-s, among whom he was re- 
garded as a leader. For half a century, he took two 
newspapers — a political paper suijporting the Demo- 
cratic paj'ty, with which he always affiliated, and the 
organ of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, of which, 
for fifty-five years, he was a member. Temperate in all 
things, he never used tobacco in any form, and for the 
last fifty years of his life totally abstained from intoxi- 
cants. Regular and domestic in his habits and taste, 
he never spent but eight nights from home after his 
marriage. Faitliful to his public duties, he voted at 
every election held in his district. And with a powerful 
constitution and an orderly manner of life, he never luid 
a serious spell of sickness, except that of which he died. 



CHAPTER II. 

Jefferson Dillard Goodpasture, the 
Early Life twelfth child of John and Margery 

(Jjryaii) Goodpastnre, was born on 
Buffalo Creek, one of the many beautiful little streams 
tributary to Eoa.ring Eiver, near the classic village of 
Hilham, in Overton County, Tennessee, on the third day 
of August, 1834. The older members ol the family were 
tlien growing up. His oldest sister was in her twentie'Lh 
year, and before he was a year old had married and 
emigrated to Illinois, lie was only four when his third 
sister married and moved to the same State. The com- 
munity was excellent, having not only much intelligence, 
but considera])le learning. There is undoubtedly much 
in environment. A boy camiot well resist the atmos- 
]»here by which he is surrounded. The example and in- 
fluence of one leading man has often been known to 
affect the character of a whole neighboi'hood, long after 
he has passed away. There is an inspiration in the life 
of every man, whose character, achievements or learn- 
ing have been so conspicuous as to attract the notice of 
his fellows, that pervades the entire circle of his 
acquaintance. It is this silent, perhaps unconscious, in- 
fluence, that causes one section of the country to send 
out more successful and influential men, than another 
with equal apparent advantages. Among their nearest 
neighbors when Judge Goodpasture was growing up. 



i6 jp:fferson dillard Goodpasture. 

were Capt. Arnold, Daniel lirown, ('apt. Simeon Hinds;, 

:\Io?es Fi8lc and T)r. T. T. Barton. 

('apt. Jesse Arnold was a native of 
Captain Arnold. ,, . , t> t xj i 

la-ovidence, K. 1. He was an only 

child and his father died when he was qnite yonng. 
At the age of sixteen he ran away from school, with a 
view to adopting the life of a sailor. He ol)tained em- 
ployment on an ontward hound vessel, and his cai-eei- 
was commenced. He rose in his profession, nnlil he 
found himself the commander of an American merchant- 
man. When the war oC 1812 came on, in which the 
American navy won such hrilliant laurels, he entered 
the service as the ca})tain of a privateer, which he com- 
manded until peace was estahlished. After the war he 
left the navy, and drifted to White Plains, Tenne^Jsee. 
ahout the year 181 T, and engaged in the nu'rcantile 
husincss with \\'il!iam liurton, whose daughter he sidj- 
se(|U('ntly luan-ied. In the meantime, he purchased a 
small farm at Jlillinm, whither he was attracted hy the 
prominent Xew England peo})le it contained. Aftei- his 
mairiage he moved to Hilham. and continued the mer- 
cantile business there, until his death, which occurred 
in 184(i. on the very day his son, .Jesse, now President 
of the iJank of Cookevillc. was horn. ('a])t. Arnold had 
two dauglitei's. Avo and ()\a, the latter of whom mar- 
ried Judge (loodpastui-e's In'othcr. ])v. J. M. <iood- 
])a<iure. and still survives him. 

Daniel lirown married a sister of 
The Tottens. ,, n^ , ^^ <• . / . . 

lU'njauun 1 ottrn, the iu'st County 

Cotirt Clerk of Overton County. The courts of the county 

were organized at Tottcn's house, on I'^agle Creek, and 

continued to 1)e held there until the Ceneral AssemlJv 



THE HINDSES. 17 

passed an act providing that after the first day of June, 
1810, the courts of the county should be held at the 
town of Monroe. He was the father of James L. Totten, 
who practiced law at livingston until sometime in the 
thirties, when he moved to Trenton, was elected to the 
Legislature in 1835, and soon afterwards moved to Mis- 
sissippi, where he became a circuit judge; Benjamin C. 
Totten, of Huntingdon, who was on the circuit bencii 
from 183? to 1845; and Arcliibald W. 0. Totten, who 
began the practice at Troy, and moved thence to Jack- 
son, and was on the supreme bench from 1850 to 1855. 

Capt. Simeon Hinds was a sturdy old 
The Hindses. , , . , , , , 

veteran who raised an honorable 

family. His son, John, became a distinguished Cum- 
berland Presbyterian preacher, and was the father of 
Prof. J. 1. D. Hinds, of Cumberland Univereity. It was 
with John Hinds that Abraham H. Goodpasture went 
to Alabama, where he professed religion and himself 
entered the ministry of the Cumberland Presbyterian 
Church, in ^\■llicll he labored faithfully and earnestly 
until his death, which occurred at Petersburg, Illinois, 
in 1885, a period of lifty years. Elizabeth J]. Good- 
pasture married Claiborne, another son, and moved with 
hiiii to Guntown, Mississippi, where she died on the 
first day of January of tliis year. Simeon, a third son, 
Ijeeame a prominent physician. He did not originally 
intend to enter the medical profession, having first 
thought to devote himself to the law. Indeed he did 
obtain a license to practice law, but abandoned the pro- 
fession on account of impaired eyesight. His eyes failed 
him while he was reading law, but he was a bright, 
intelligent, ambitious fellow, and d^tfTWiiiGd to prose- 
2 



l8 JEFFERSON DILEARD GOODPASTURE. 

taite his studies notwithstanding his misfortune. Ac- 
cordingly he employed a young man in the neighbor- 
hood, named Parker Lane, to read to him. This 
arrangement was kept up for a year or niore, and when 
Hinds applied for his license, Lane said he thought he 
would get one too; and he did, aftei* which he moved to 
Texas, where he became a distinguished lawyer, and 
and died in his young manhood. 

3[(Kses Fisk (1759-1843), originally 
from Grafton, j\lassachnsetts, was a 
man of great jM'ominence in the early histor}' of this 
8tate. He wa.s a graduate of Dartmouth C*ollege, and 
had Ijeen for seven yeai-s a tutor in that famous institu- 
tion, Avhere he had taught with much success. One of 
his ])upils. Gen. K. W. Kipley. a man of national reputa- 
tion, writing liim in ISK. pays him this high tribute: 
"If it ha.s been my lot to acquire distinction or reputa- 
tion ; if I have sei-ved the interests of my country in any 
manner however limited, the cause of it may be traced 
to the admonitions and precepts of three res}iectablc 
Ijcnef actors: yourself, Ca.pt. Dunham and Wm. Woodard." 
Tfo came to Tennessee in 1196, the year of its admis- 
sion to the Union. At Philadelphia, he n)et William 
Blount, just lately elected one of the first Ignited States 
Senato]'s fi-om 'J'ennessee, and caviied a letter from him 
tp Governor Sevier, at Knoxvilje. From tliat time lie 
bcraiiif a warm fi'iend of the Bhrnnts, the younger of 
» hoiii afldres>od him as "chum.'" lie did not, however, 
remain long in Know illc. liaving early made his way to 
(.';!ml:er]an(l. where lie was connected with many public 
enterpiises. Me studied law and was admitted to the 
liar, ill the -iigge.^tion. of AViUjiiiTi Ijjouni. through whom, 



MOSES FISK. 19 

also, he was tendered the presidency of the University 
of North Carohna, which he declined. Being a great 
mathematician, in 1802 he was aj^pointed by Governor 
Koane one of the Commissioners on the part of Ten- 
nessee to settle and locate the true lx)undary line between 
this State and Virginia, and as snch assisted in running 
the line lately upheld by the Supreme Court of the 
United States; and for the same reason, in 1817, he was 
urged by Governor Mc]\iinn to accept the place of 
mathematician, to aid in the adjustment of the difference 
between Tennessee and Kentucky. His business as a 
surveyor was quite lucrative, liringing him large bodies 
of valuable land, mostly in the IMountain District. 

He found time, however, for much literal*}' labor. 
Ill 1803, he was appointed by the General Assembly, in 
connection with Willie Blount, to compile the laws of 
the State, which work he undertook alone, and reported 
to the Legislature in 1805, when he was paid for the 
work done, and the matter was referred back to him for 
completion. But Haywood's Iievisal, covering the same 
ground, having appeared l)cfore he was ready to report, 
his work A\'as never published. His coirespondence with 
distinguished individuals, and with antiquarian and his- 
torical sicieties, was very great. Valuable contributions 
from his pen will Ije found in the first volume of the 
Transactions of the American Antiquarian Society, and 
the seventh volume (second scries) of the ^iJassacliuselts 
ilistorical Society Papers. 

Following the tide of immigration b;ick east, from 
Xasliville, we find him acting a.s pro tem. clerk, when 
Smith County w.is organized, in 1190. In 1801, he was 
Chairman of thf Couptv Court of Smith Conntv, and 



20 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

when Jackson County was organized, under an act of 
that year, it was he whom the Legislature named to ad- 
minister the oath of office to its first justices. In 1802, 
he Avas Hving at Fort Blount, for some years called Wil- 
liamsburg, with the old Indian fighter, Sampson Will- 
iams, one of the daring men who came to Cumberland 
with James Eobertson, in 1780, and who was Sheriff of 
Davidson County as early as 1790, and subsequently a 
member of the State Senate, first from Sumner County, 
then from Smith and Jackson, and still later from a 
larger district. Judge Goodpasture remembered to have 
seen the old pioneer in his youth, but was impressed 
by nothing about him so much as the immense size of 
his ears. 

AVe next find Mr. Fisk laying off the town of Ililham, 
about the year 1805. He staked his fortune on the 
success of Hilliam. He spent much money in laying out 
and undertaking to construct a sj'stem of turnpikes, all 
centering there. But his Jirst care was to provide it 
with suitable institutions of learning. He was a trustee 
of Davidson Academy, of Overton Academy and of Fisk 
Female Academy. The latter institution was endoAved 
by tlie gift of one thousand acres of land, each, by Mr. 
Fisk and liis old friend Sampson Williams, and estab- 
lished by legislative authority, in 1806, "at a place called 
Ililluiin, on the eastern part of j\fagnolia Eiver, in the 
county of Overton." This was the first distinctively 
feuiale school chartered in the South, and one of the first 
in America. The name of the stream on wliicli it was 
located wag no doubt that by which ^Ir. ]"isk called 
Roaring River, as he was the ti'aveling comjianion of 
^lichau,:^, when he raved so oyer the wild magnolias 



JOHN DICKINSON. 31 

found on its banks. Although so ambitious an enter- 
prise as Fisk Female Academy was not destined to suc- 
ceed, still Mr. Fisk made it a prime object to see that 
good schools were maintained at Hilham, and for many 
yeaj-s it was done under his own direction and control. 
He induced many young New Englanders to come to his 
neighborhood, generally as teachers. Notable among 
these was Judge Leonard, who taught successfully at 
Hilham, manned Mr. Fisk's daughter and moved to 
Missom-i, where he became an eminent jurist. Anotber 
was Sidney H. Little, who taught at Monroe, and after- 
wards became a distinguished lawyer in the State of 
Illinois. 

Under his inspiration other intel- 
ligent and educated New Englanders 
came to the West, such as John Dickinson (1781-1815), 
who graduated at Dartmouth in 1797; taught a while in 
Knoxville; became a distinguished lawyer in Nashville; 
fought a duel with one of- the Overtons (using Fisk's 
dueling pistols); and died in the ver}^ opening of what 
promised to be an unusually brilliant career. 

Another was a kinsman, Moses Madi- 
**°^^^^*^^^''^°" son Fisk (1780-1804), who graduated 
at Darimouth in 1802, and died in 
Nashville two years later. This amusing college story 
is told to illustrate the Ijrightness of his intellect: 
Professor Woodard was maintaining the identity of the 
person, in despite of bodily cbanges. He illustrated his 
position by a sbip, whose parts hare all been renewed, 
leaving it still the same ship. Young Fisk held out a 
penknife and asked, "If I lose the blade and get an- 
other, is it the same knife?" Tbe Professor answered. 



22 JEFFERSON DII.LARD GOODPASTURE. 

"Yes." ''If I next lose the handle and get another, is 

it still the same?" "Yes." "But my chum finds both 

the lost blade and handle, and jnits them together — 

H'hat knife is that?" 

One otlier sbould be mentioned, his 
Dr. T. T. Barton. . , , i, „!•. mi i n j. 

nejghbor. Dr. litns Theodore JJartoii 

(lTGG-18-^:), a graduate of Dartmouth College, an or- 
dained ininister of the Congregationalist t'hureh, and a 
doctor of medicine, who reached Ililliam XoYeml)er 2^, 
181T. and practiced medicine there until 182T. when iie 
left for Jacksonville, Illinois, and died en route. 

The Goodpastures and Fisks were good friends during 
all the long years they lived neighbors. .John (iood- 
pasture. the father, ^\•ho was a Justice of the Peace at 
the time, performed the marriage ceremony, when, some- 
time about 181.5, Mr. Fisk, then more than fifty years of 
age, found himself a wife; and when, many years after- 
wards, they failed to agree, by their request, he fixed the 
allowance to be made her, upon their separation. ,She 
lived thenceforth in a house of her own, in the same 
yard, and both parties carried out their agreement faith- 
fully as long as they lived. 

Judge Goodpasture used to tell some interesting 
anecdotes, illustrating the character of Mr. Fisk. He 
said he was a man of marked peculiarities — eccentric, 
unapproachable, and, as he recollected him, awe-inspir- 
ing. He was postmaster when the Judge was a small 
boy, and when he went for the mail, as it was his busi- 
ness to do, it was always with considerable trepidation. 
On one of these occasions, there was almost an open 
rupture between them. Tlie Judge was only ten or 
twelve veare old at the time, and wore a brown jeans 



DR. T. T. BARTON. 23 

cap his mother had made him. When he walked into 
the room he hiid liis cap heside him on the floor, and 
took a seat to wait tlie pleasure of the k^arned okl j)0si- 
master, wlio was not accustomed to hurry liimself I'or 
the accommodation of even more important ])er?onaiTes. 
When he discovered the boy's cap on the lh>or, he toid 
him, in a manner tliat was construed to be a command, 
to put it on the table. The ])oy rebeded at once, and 
made some remark to the effect that it wo\dd do very 
well down there. "Sir." shouted ^Ir. I'^isk. "I siiy take 
your hat oil' of my floor;'" wliich, seeming reasonable, 
he did, compromising with his humiliation by placing 
it on his head. 

Speaking of having to wait ^Ir. Fisk's ])lcasure l)rings 
to mind another anecdote, lie was a Justice of the 
Peace a.s well as postmaster, and on a certain occasion 
('apt. Hinds had some business with him. AMien he 
walked in Mv. Fisk was reading a newspaper, and paid 
not the least attention to his salutation, which was 
repeated ,a second, and perhajis a tliird time. When he 
had finished the paragra])h he was upon, he raised his 
eyes from the paper. 

"Good morning, Capt. Hinds, be seated," he said. 

"Sir," said Hinds, in liigh dndgeon, "I had some busi- 
ness with you, but I will see you another time," and 
turning upon his heels walked out. 

('apt. Hinds kept a mill, but in addition he was a 
col)bler, and when, not long afterwards, Mr. Fisk called 
on him. lie clumced to be engaged mending a shoe, 
drawing his threads with both hands, as the manner was. 

"Good morning," said Mr. Fisk. 

But the threads came throuah aaain and again, and 



24 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

his eyes were never raised from his work, until he had 
completed his seam. 

"Good morning. Squire Fisk, come in." 

j\Ir. Fisk said not a word, but taking in the situation, 
turned and left in as great a mill as C'apt. Hinds himself 
had shown on the former occasion. 

This account of these near neighbors 
has been thought necessary, as illus- 
trating the strong, sturdy stock of men who settled this 
part of the country, and as accounting, in some measure, 
for the intellectual atmosphere that surrounded Flilham, 
stimulating the ambition and elevating the aspirations 
of its young men, many of whom have won h()iini'al)le 
names among their countrymen. Besides these, there 
were re])resentatives of many illustrious families in other 
parts of the coimty. (ioveraor Sevier located iwo grants 
for something over oT,000 acres of land in Overton 
County, now Overtoil and Clay. On this vast domain 
many membei-s of his family settled. After his dealh 
in 1815, his widow, the celebrated "Bonnie Kate,"" 
moved to "The Dale," now known as the Clark place, 
in Clay County. It was in a romantic and secluded spot, 
upon a high bench, among the liills of Obeds River. 
Around her, but not with her, were her brother, 
brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, sons and daughters. j\lrs. 
Matlock, a sister of Governor Sevier, was the mother of 
Valentine Matlock, one time Sheritf of Overton County; 
and (ieo. W. Sevier, a son, was Circut Court Clerk. Her 
brother, John Sherill, lived near the moutli of A\'olf 
River, as did also her son. Dr. Sa.m Sevier, who after- 
wards removed with her to Alabama. Of the Governor's 
brothers, Abram lived about ten miles north of Livings- 



THE WOMEN. 25 

ton, and Joseph near the mouth of Ashburn's Creek. 
Among his sons and daughters, there was Catherine 
Campbell, whose second husband was Archibald Kay; 
Joanna Windle and Valentine Sevier, who lived on 
Irons Creek; Mary Overstreet, who lived on Obeds 
Eiver; George AY. Sevier, who lived on Sulphnr Creek, 
and afterwards moved to Xa.^hville; Sarah Brown, who 
lived at the James Mc^Millin old place; and Ann Corlin, 
who lived on Ashhnrn's creek. 

Not only did they have the heroic 
deeds of snch men as the Seviei*s to 
excite their emulation, and the learning of Fisk and liis 
Dartmouth coterie to direct and discipline their minds, 
but there was a wonderful concord and fellowship 
among the pioneer settlers, that strengthened the home 
ties and inspired the deepest patriotic sentiments. The 
log-rolling, the corn-shucking and the quilting have 
been too often descriljed to be repeated here. ICach 
neighbor was always ready to lend a helping hand to the 
others. The women of the household never lost an 
opportunity to do little acts of kindness towards each 
other, not generally valuable in themselves, but suf- 
ficient to manifest a neighborly feeling, and on occasion, 
to relieve the wants of any Avho might be in distress. 
The very earliest recollection of Judge Goodpasture 
related to a visit he made to Mrs. Robert Mitchell, who 
lived not far from his fathers place. When he was 
ready to leave, Mrs. Mitchell gave liim a pint cup of 
butter, which he was requested to carr\' to his mother. 
The tiling that impres,sed the incident upon his mind 
was the circumstance that, though he took the butter in 
good faith, in playing along the road he let the cup fall, 



26 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

causing the butter and sand to ])etonie so mixed that lie 
thought it not worth while to deliver it. 

On another occasion about the same tinle, his furher 
needed a trowel, and sent him to borrow one of John 
Ashworth, who lived about a quarter of a mile away. 
Not comprehending fully what it was that was wanted, 
he asked the loan of a towel. ^Irs. Ashworth seemed 
to have some misgivings as to the accuracy of so singidar 
a request, but she did not hesitate to coiuply. Taking 
a nice, clean towel, she wrajqied up a mess of dried- 
pumpkins in it, as if in token of her entire willingness 
to be obligiug, and asked him to deliver them to his 
mother. 

Such were the sttrroundings when 

Enters School. -, ^ , , t , i ^ i 

Judge (loodjiasture began to reach an 

ui>e at which he was to enter school. He could hardlv 

ha^e been over five years old when he suffered that 

terrible ordeal. The teacher was John Smeltser. 

Smeltser mamed a daughter of their neighbor. Daniel 

Brown, and his grandson, John Smeltser Brown and 

Judge Goodpasture were, for many years, the warmest 

of friends. Etit he was in such mortal terror of John 

Smeltser, that as the first day of his school approached 

he hid his shoes, thinking, as it was then bitter cold 

weather, they cotild not be so cruel as to make him go 

without them. After diligent search, however, some 

one found his shoes, and there was no longer any excuse 

left him. He found the master so much less dangerous 

than he had anticijiated that, as he used to relate, he 

was not at all times as obedient as he ought to have 

been to liis reasonable rules. H was not long before he 

had to stand u}) before the scliool with the little girl 



WORK ON THE FARM. 2^ 

whose only fault was to reciprocate his youthful affec- 
tions. But he must have borne it heroically, as we find 
the master changing Ms tactics on his next offense. The 
school was being held in an old dwelling, and under one 
corner of the room there was a potato cellar, with a 
trap door leading down to it. lie raised this door and 
let the culprit down into the cellar. But hardly had he 
reached the bottom when he discovered a light coming 
through a rent made by removing a stone from the un- 
der})inning. His plans were formed in an instant. He 
made for that hole, and in an incredibly short time was 
safe at home. However, according to his account, he 
did not feel at all safe until the whole of the next day 
had passed withottt the matter having been referred 
to by the master. 

Judge Goodpasture — and the same 
or s on ^^.^^ measurablv true of all his neigh- 

the Farrr. i' , i 

bors — was only able to go to school 

in the winter montlis, liis services being required at home 
during the cropping season. At that time every member 
of the household was required to work. Even the card- 
ing, spinning, weaving, knitting and sewing necessary to 
clothe the family was done at home. The writer has 
seen a beautiful sample of silk, from a dress of Judge 
Goodpasture's sister, Hettie, who raised the cocoons, 
reeled the silk, dyed it, wove the cloth, and made it into 
the dress herself. As a veiw small boy it was his daily 
task to pace around the field, whooping and shouting, 
making all the noise he could, in order to protect the 
corn against the myriad of squirrels that committed 
such depredations upon it as to seriously endanger the 
crop. Then the same process had to be enacted in the 



28 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

orchard, where the parrakeets collected in such numbers 
as to strip the trees of their fruit in an incredibly short 
time if they were not frightened away. 

A little later he gi-ew to the stature of what was called 
in those days a "plow boy," which was usually reached at 
the age of about ten years. From this time he made a 
regular hand in the field. The work was divided up, 
some running the plows, and others the hoes. He and 
the negro. Bob, did most of the plowing, in which he 
attained a proficiency of wliich he was proud even in 
liis mature life. He thought, no doidjt with good 
reason, that few men could run a straighter furrow than 
he. And he never forgot old "Grog," for many years 
the companion of liis toil; so many, in fact, that he came 
to understand the summons of the dinner horn as well 
as his master, and persisted in going to the gap when it 
sounded, without regard to his wishes in the matter. 
When his sister, Betsy, married Claiborne Hinds, old 
Grog was given to her and was put in the wagon that 
moved them to Mississippi. It was thought that he 
ought to be shod in anticipation of so long a journey. 
He was now quite old and had never worn a shoe, so 
the smith found great difficulty in shoeing him. In 
fact, he only succeeded in getting one shoe on, and was 
not able to clinch the nails in that, and so, old Grog- 
made the long journey to IMississippi without lameness, 
with but a single shoe half put on. 

One day in the summer of 1839 he 
Sees 3 Governor. 

was informed that Governor Cannon 

and Colonel Polk, the candidates for Governor, who 
were stumping the State together, would pass the field 
where he was plowing. He had never seen a Govenior, 



GOES INTO BUSINESS. 29 

and his curiosity was gTeatly excited. xVt the proper 
hour, he stationed himself on the fence to see them go 
by, like the small boy now watches for the circus. 
Governor Cannon rode an immense iron grey horse, with 
more trappings than he had ever seen before, and re- 
ceived much more of his attention than his opponent 
and traveling companion. The next day, however, he 
was permitted to go to the speaking. It made a lasting 
impression on Ms mind, the superiority of Colonel Polk's 
address, in his estimation, more than counterbalancing 
the splendid trappings of Governor Cannon's horse. 
In the next canvass, Governor Polk, who had defeated 
Cannon, and a few years later. Governor Aaron Y. 
Brown, each spent a night with liis father. 

It was during these years that Judge 

oes n o Goodpasture made his first business 

Business. ^ . 

venture. One evening a traveler was 
entertained at Iris father's, and when the stranger had 
departed next morning, he found a silver ninepence in 
the room he had occupied. Tliis was his first capital. 
He had his mother make him a purse to put it in, wliile 
he was looking oiit for an investment. He soon bought 
two beautiful, blue pullets from a neighbor, and entered 
the chicken business. The arrangement he had with 
his mother was this: He was allowed to keep all the 
})ullets, and one rooster to every dozen of them. The 
excess of roosters she killed as they were needed for 
family consumption. He succeeded so well that it was 
not long imtil he had a flock of two hundred for sale. 
These he sold to John Barksdale for $3.5.00. When he 
received the money he loaned it to his neighbor, George 
Christian, a son-in-law of Moses Fisk, who was a good 



30 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

citizen and an upright man, with whom he maintained 

the warmest friendship up to the day of his death. The 

writer saw Mr. Christian in 1888, who was hale and 

hearty, in the eighty-seventh year of his age, and earned 

a cane, made of coffee wood, wliich Judge Goodpasture 

had brought him from Mexico, and which he prized above 

its value on that account. Christian gave Mm his note, 

v.'hich he held until the interest more than equalled 

the principal. 

Judge Goodpasture gave close atten- 

u. a- tion to business, even in his early 

Mrs rigs. '' 

cliildliood. Many anecdotes are told 
of him, illustrating this trait. One will suffice. He had 
a sow and pigs. In order that they might get water, the 
})cn was made so as to enclose a part, of Buffalo Creek. 
In the night there came up a sudden storm. The rain 
fell in torrents. The boy knew it would flood his pi^n 
and drown Ms pigs, unless they were released. The 
night was dark, and the pen some distance from the 
house. He asked an older brother to go with him to 
the rescue. His brotJier declining, he went alone, and 
found the sow standing in the water, and the little pigs 
swimming in great distress around her. He tore away 
the fence, and had the pleasure of seeing them find a 
Itlace of safety and lie down in perfect contentment. 



CHAPTER III. 

]n the ineaiitime, he continued at 
Continues 
At School school m the tail and winter, wliere 

he was enabled to acquire the rudi- 
ments of an education. Old Union, less than a mile 
from his fatlier's, was a famous raeetin^^ house, in those 
days. In its ([luet, shady old church yard, the remains 
of his father and mother have reposed in peace, these 
thirty odd years, under the modest marhle slabs his filial 
love erected over them. The house was sometimes also 
used for school purposes, and it was here that William 
Hall once taught a prosperous school of more than sixty 
students, in which Judge Goodpasture was a pupil. He 
next entered Judge Leonard's school at Hilham. Then 
lie recited privately to Dr. Simeon Hinds. The last 
scliool he attended was taught by Judge Gardenhire. 

AVhile he was growing up the boys 

The Debating ^^^, ^^j^^^ed a debating societv at Old 
Society. ^ ^ ^ ' . 

I nion, which attracted the attention 

of the coiuitry for miles around. The value of such 
societies for the pur])ose of drawing out and developing 
the latent talent of young men, can hardly be over- 
estimated. In this society. Judge Goodpasture uiaui- 
fesled co))si(k'i'aMe ski|! as a debater, and received not 
a littJe rustic a]>plaus(.'. Always precocious, anti vvw 
self-reliant, he began to piark out his own career, and 
assume Die r( sponsil>ilily ul' his future destiny, long 
before he had reached majovity. His first step was a 



32 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

bold one. Stimulated by his success in the debating 
society, at the age of seventeen, he determined to adopt 
the profession of the law. The daring character of this 
resolution can be appreciated when it is understood that 
among all his ancestors, so far back as tradition reached, 
none had ever tested the field of the law. When he 
mentioned to his father his purpose to read law, the old 
gentleman readily consented, with the obsen^ation, that 
had at once occurred to his strong, conserv^ative mind, 
that "it would do him no harm." 

Accordingly, when he had made up 
his mind to be a lawyer, without a 
disturbing doubt as to his ultimate succc'ss, he at once 
began teaching school, at $12.00 per month, in order 
that he might be able to put a hand in his place on the 
farm, while he gave more time to the prosecution of his 
studies. AVhen he was ready to begin reading law, at 
about the age of twenty, he rode over to the house of 
his father's })ersonal and political friend. Judge Alvin 
Cullom, who from that day became his own devoted and 
1 ill i mate friend, while he lived, and at his death be- 
( pi rallied him his extensive political library, a.s a token 
of his warm esteem. Judge Cullom was then just back 
from serving his first term in Congress, and was regarded 
by his young friend with much awe and great admiration, 
lie loaned liim a volume of Blackstone's Commentaries, 
and gave him such advice as he thought might be useful 
to him, in entering upon its study. 

His association with the Culloms was 

so long and intimate that a short 

vsketch of the family will not be considered out of place. 

Thev were of Scotch descent, tracing their lineage back 



JUDGE ALVIN CULLOM. 33 

to the claji ]\Ia.cCulloiii. The grandfather, George 
Ciillom, was a Maryhind tobacco planter, and William, 
the father, was a small farmer in the Elk Spring Yalk^v, 
near Monticello, in Wayne C*oimt3% Kentucky, where all 
his eleven children were born. Two sons, Edward X. 
and Alvin, and two daughters, h]lizabeth, the wife of 
Dr. Spencer j\IcHenry, and Lncinda, wife of the late 
John Hari., who was for many years County Court Clerk, 
at Livingston, ca.me to Overton County early in the 
tweiitie.s, and settled near Monroe, then the county site. 
The father and most of the others followed them about 
1830. Eichard N., the third son, moved to Illinois, 
where his son, Shelby M., liecame Governor of the State, 
aiid at present represents it in the United States Senate. 
The only one of the boys who never figiired in pul)lic 
life, was James N., who married a daughter of Benjamin 
Totten. William Cullom, Sr., was a devout Christian 
man, and for forty-six years a class leader in the Meth- 
odist Church. Eev.T. F. Bates describes liim, after he came 
to this State, as having a patriarchal appearance that 
reminded him of the pictures he had seen of John 
Wesley. He died in 1838, and was buried at ]\Ionroe. 
Edward N". Cullom was Judge Goodpasture's immediate 
predecessor in the office of Clerk and Master, at Livings- 
ton. But the two members of the family best known in 
this State, and most intimately connected with Judge 
Goodpasture, were Alvin and his brother William. 

Alvin Cullom (i;93-1877), to whom 

f ^M ^'" yoking Goodpasture went for advice 
Cullom. ■ . 

and assistance, when he was ready to 

take up the study of the law, is described by Rev. T. F. 
Bates, who knew him well, as large of frame, portly and 
3 



34 JKFFKRSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

rugged, and every inch a man. He ^vas fully identified 
with all the best interests of the country, and never be- 
trayed a trust, nor was guilty of a dishonorable act. 
Brave as Julius Caesar, lie was yet as tender of heart 
and gentle as a woman. A\'hether acting as legal counsel 
at the bar, wearing the ermine of judicial authority on 
the bench, or looking after the interests of his constitu- 
ency as a representative in Congress, he was still the 
refined gentleman, to whom you could commit your 
dearest interests without the slightest apprehension of 
betrayal. He threw the weight of his influence uni- 
formly in the scale of right, peace and justice, and lived 
in harmony vv'ith these great principles. He was not 
inflated with vanity by success, and could not be cajoled 
into improper measures by flattery. 

Judge Cullom did not adopt the legal profost^ion unul 
the mature years of his life. When a young man he 
seems to have raised a small crop of wild oats. Judge 
Goodpasture used to repeat this sentence from a speech 
of Hon. Thomas L. Bransford, who was Judge Cullom's 
competitor in his race for Congress, in 184:3: "Little 
did 1 think, fellow citizens, twenty years ago, when I 
was riding a mule and canwing the mail from Gaines- 
boro to Monticello, and my distinguished competitor was 
kee[)ing a saloon in Old JMonroe, that we would ever be 
o]>posing candidates for a seat in the Congress of the 
United States." The habits of the young men of 
Monroe do not seem to have been the best about 1833. 
It was in that year that Andrew J. Marchbanks, after- 
wards so distinguished on the circuit bench, went to 
lliat village to study law under his brother-in-law', Major 
H. H. Atldnson, but in the course of a year, discovering 



ADAM HUNTSMAN. 35 

tliat he had become quite idle, and was doing no good, 

hke a wise A'oung man, he returned to liis father. 

But wiien Judge Cullom did take up the law, lie lei't 

all idle habits behind him. There was another young 

man who came to the ilonroe bar about the same lime. 

Ijut the sprightly, buoyant young Edward Cross (1798- 

1881), whether for the same reason that moved Judge 

]\larchbanks, or not, for some reason, determined to leave 

old Monroe and emigi-atc to the State of Arkansas. 

AVhen he parted from Judge Cullom, his leave taking 

proved a prophecy. "By the gods, Cullom, I am going 

to x\rkansas, and when I next meet you I expect it to be 

in the Congress of the United States." When Judge 

Cullom went to Congress, in 1843, he met, for the lirst 

time since their parting, Judge Cross, then the only 

representative from the State of Arkansas. 

, ., .. Monroe seems to have been on the 

Adam Huntsman. 

wane, even at that early period. 

Adam Huntsman had been their leading lawyer, and 
represented them in the State Senate from 1815 to 1831, 
Ijut he too left about the same time, and moved to 
Jackson, where he was again elected to the Senate, in 
1827, and subsequently served two terms in Congress. 
In 1835, with the help of the Jackson administration, 
he defeated the amiable and inimitable Davy Crockett, 
who was so chagrined at his defeat that he left the State, 
and found a glorious death at the Alamo, in the Texas 
war of independence. Judge Goodpasture met Hunts- 
man once, when he was visiting among his old friends. 
He was a one legged man, and was then much advanced 
in years, but he was still sprightly and animated, and 
when an early friend asked if he knew him, he replied: 



36 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

''I think I used to know an old sinner about your size." 
In his profession, Judge CuUom made rapid progi-ess. 
He liad not been at tlie bar long when a leading citizen 
— perhaps one of the Armstrongs — was indicted for mur- 
der. Felix Grundy was rettiincd to defend him. Cid- 
loni assisted him. The defendant was acquitted, and 
Judge Grundy received a valuable negro for" his fee. 
Before leaving he said to the assemljled crowd: '"Gen- 
tlemen, it will not be necessary for you to send for me 
in the future. You have a man here,"' pointing to 
Cullom, "who can serve you as well as I." ' 

Judge Cidlom soon drifted into politics, as nearly all 
lawyers did in his day. One of the most exciting- 
elections ever held for representative in . the county 
occurred in 1835, between him and Jonathan Douglass, 
who had been a member of the Legislature in 182G. It 
may be that it was the more bitter on account of the as- 
})erities growing out of the contest which resulted in the 
removal of the county site from ]\Ionroe to Livingston, a 
result ^v'hich was never wholly acquiesced in until the 
adoption of the constitution of 1834, that made a two 
thirds vote necessaiy to remove a county site. It was a 
hot and bitter campaign. Jacob Dillon, who came to the 
bar with Judge Cullom and Ed. Cross, in 1823, and whom 
Judge Cullom told the writer, in 1876, he regarded as 
the most brilliant young lawyer he had ever known, 
took the stump for him, and though he saw his friend 
elected by a small majority, he contracted a cold in the 
canvass, which soon afterwards resulted in his death. 
At the time of that unhappy event, he had a little 
daughter, only three months old, who, when she had 
grown up, became the wife of Judge Goodpasture. 



GEN. WILLIAM CULLOM. 37 

After that Judge C'lilloni was a nieinber of Congress 
from 1843 to 1847; Circuit Judge from 1850 to 1852; 
and one of the delegates elected b}' the Legislature to 
the Southern Conference in 1861. He lived to be 
eighty-four years of age. Rev. J. AY. Cullom preached 
his funeral, at a little church he had erected near his 
home, five miles south of Livingston. 

In 1835 a handsome voting stranger 
Gen. William , ^ , ' '^ , ^ , 

Cullom ^^ twenty-nve, Malked into the lead- 

ing hotel in McMinnville. He stood 
full six feet three inches tall, and. as straight as an 
Lidian, with a profusion of raven black hair. His 
presence was handsome and intelligent, and his manners 
courtly and self-satisfied. When he came in, a quiet old 
gentleman, a Mr. Kamsey, the father Judge Good- 
pasture's valued friend, Chis Eamsey, of McMinnville, 
was nodding in the office, perhaps just a little in his cups. 
As the handsome young man strode Ijack and forth 
across the ofifice. with the air and mien of a lord, the 
quiet old gentleman, who was himself something of a 
character in his country, began to interrogate him. 

"Young man, what might be your name?" 

"William Cullom, sir. I am the newly elected Attor- 
ney-General of this circuit." 

'"Yes. Where are you from, young man?" 

"Gainesboro, sir." 

"Yes. Gaines1)oro, on Doe Creek! I believe the 
principal products of Doe Creek are babies and dried 
pumpkins." 

Such was the introduction of William Cullom (1810- 
189G), when he went to attend the first court after his 
election to the oflfice of Attornev-General of the Sixth 



38 JEFFERSON DILI.ARD GOODPASTURE. 

Judicial Circuit, lie had begun his career by son'ing 
two years as Dei)uty Sheriff of Overton County, after 
which he took the law course in Transylvania University, 
at Lexington, Kentucky, lie coninicnccd the practice 
at (Tainesl)oro, was soon afterwards elected Attorney- 
(ieneral, and, in 1839, moved to Carthage. As soon as 
his time had expired, in 1813, he was elected to the State 
Senate, and re-elected in 18-1.5. Judge Alvin was an nn- 
compromising Democrat, but Gen. AVilliam was a Whig. 
lie was a Taylor elector in 1848, a. meml)er of Congress 
from 1851 to 1855, and Clerk of the Xational House of 
Kepresentatives in 1856-7. After the war, he moved 
to Livingston, and was appointed and afterwards elected 
Attorney-General of the Sixteenth Circuit, and held the 
office from 1873 to 1876, when he resigned to accept an 
appointment as Circuit Judge in the same circuit. 
While xlttorney-General he moved to Clinton, on the 
other side of the mountain, where he died in Decendxn', 
1896, at the advanced age of eighty-six years. 

Judge Goodpasture thought he had the greatest mind 
ever developed in the ]\[ountain District. He was little 
acquainted with books, not more, perhaps, with law 
books than those of a literary character. Yet, he was a 
successful practitioner, and, at times, a powerfid advo- 
cate. He relied wholly on the inspiration of the moment 
and the occasion. The writer has often heard him say 
that his great Kossuth speech, by which he electrilled 
Congress, in his first appearance before that body, was 
a i")nre inspiration. He did not know when lie arose 
what he wonld say, and when he had concluded he was 
qnite as ignorant of the language he had employed. It 
was for this reason that he supposed he had made an 



JUDGE K. L. GARDENHIRB:. 39 

unfortunate l)roak when General Breckenridge asked 
him: "Have you any friend in this House?" And for 
the same reason he was ready to believe he had made an 
unusually felicitous eliort, v>hen he added: "If you 
have he ought to kill you at once, while you are at tke 
zenith of a reputation some representatives have sought 
in vain on this floor for thirty years." Perhaps his 
greatest Congressional speech, however, was that m op- 
position to the Kansas-]^ebraska bill, which cost him his 
seat in the next House, but undoubtedly made him 
clerk of that body. 

After Judge Goodpasture had been 

Judge E. L. YOiXilmg law a short while, in 1845 
Gardenhire. 

he entered the law ofnce of Judge 

E. L. Gardenhire (1815 ), who had moved to Liv- 
ingston in 18-14, and pursued his studies under his direc- 
tion. Judge Gardenhire was a grandson of Jacob Gar- 
denliire, whose name we have seen attached, along with 
those of James and John Goodpasture, to a petition for 
tlie division of Knox County. He had the good fortune 
to receive a better education than fell to the lot of 
most of the aspiring young men of the Moxuitain Dis- 
tinct, having spent the last two years of his school life 
in a classical institution, called Clinton College, in Smith 
County. At this time he was just entering on a large 
and lucrative practice, which he has been able to hold 
for more than half a century. He was well grounded in 
the law, as well as in historj^ and belles-letters. Judge 
Goodpasture always thought he would have made a 
famous teacher in one of our great law schools. In one 
of his letters he sa3's: "I feel confident that as a teacher, 
Gardenhire has not a superior in the State. In addition 



40 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

to liis line legal attainments, his literaiy taste and 
acquirements are of the very best, and his vigorous, sys- 
tematic, orderly manner of studying is unsurpassed." 

Tiie writer himself read law A\ith Judge Gardenhire 
some thirty years after his father had entered his oifice, 
and desires to hear witness to the elevated conception he 
liad of tlie profession, and tlie wise counsel and valuable 
instruction he was able to impress upon his pupils. 
After magnifying the fundamental principles of the law, 
aud discussing their ]U"actica] a|)plieation to the inilnite 
variety of liuman activities, he never failed to urge upon 
the student tlie importance of giving a "painful" investi- 
gation to tlie facts of each particular case. 

The lawyer who rode the circuit in the ]\lonntain 
District had to travel long distances, not unfrequently 
withou.t a companion. In order to utilize these weary 
hours. Judge Gardenhire early ado])ted the plan of keep- 
ing commonplace liooks, in which he copied such pa.s- 
sages from classic literature as he decjucd might l)e use- 
ful, on occasions, eillu'i- by way of illustration or orna- 
ment. These delightful jiieces he would commit to 
memory, a.s he rode along the tiresome way, thus ac- 
complishing the double piu-])ose of relieving the tedium 
of the journey and ilxing in his mind the choice lan- 
guage in which our great authors have clothed their 
brightest thoughts. The writer remembers many such 
passages now. Some were from the Psalms, of which 
he was ])articularly fond. Shakespeare also was a 
favorite author, and Junius was another. living's 
Sketcli Book was liberally used, and occasional lines 
were taken from Dr. Holmes. Hon. Benton ]\Ic]\Iillin, 
a nei)he\v of his wife, had studied law with him, and, he 



JUDGE E. Iv. GARDENHIRE. 41 

said, had adopted this phm, which he had found quite 
iisefuh It may he added, tliat Judge Gardenhire pre- 
dicted a bright future for Mr. McMilHn, though he had 
not then offered for the seat in (*ongrcss, wliich lie has 
now occupied for twenty year?. 

Judge Gardenhire was not wholly exenijit from tlie 
])revailing disposition to enter polities. In 1819-50, 
he was a member of the State Senate, and in 1858 was 
elected Circuit Judge. The war coming on, in 18G1, 
he was a memlier of the Confederate Congress. ITe was 
a member of the lower House of the General Assembly, 
in 18T5. a member of the Arbitration Court, in 1877, 
and a member of the C*ourt of Referees, in 1883. 

Early in his career. Judge Gardenhire greatly distin- 
guished himself by the able manner in which he con- 
ducted the defense of Mary Copeland, indicted for the 
murder of Ruth Daugherty. The masterly opinion of 
the Supreme Court in the case was delivered by Judge 
Tnrley, and is reported in Seventh Humphrey's Reports. 



CHAPTER IV. 

Judge Goodpasture had as a chum, 
inging ji^ i^jg j.^^^, studies at Livino'ston, 

Geography. '^ 

]Janiel McMilhn, of wliom lie always 

retained the most pleasant recollections. After his ad- 
mission to the har, McMillin went to Texas, where lie 
made a distinguished lawyer. The field of his own 
future activity was not for a time entirely clear to him. 
He made a tour of the Southern counties of j\Iiddle 
Tennessee and North Alal)ama, as far as Iluntsville, 
"singing geography/' as well with a view of replenishing 
his now almost exhausted means, as for the jnirpose of 
prospecting for a location in which to practice his pro- 
fession. Perhaps some reader may not be familiar with 
this character of instruction. It Avas a primitive method 
of fixing geographical names and localities in the mind. 
The teacher would lead, and the pupils would follow in 
concert. For instance, if they were learning the capitals 
of the States, they would sing out: "]\Iaine, Augusta; 
]\faine, Augusta — New Iiam])shire, Concord; New 
Hampshire, Concord," and so on. After returning 
from his tour, singing geography, he enlisted as a volun- 
teer in Captain Eichardson Copeland's company for 
service in tlie ]\Iexican war. The company was not 
accepted, hut President Polk made a place for then- 
gallant commander, in the Quartermasters dejiartmenc, 
with the rank of captain. By this time he had defin- 
itely determined to make Livingston his home, and 



RIDLEY-MARCHBANKS. 43 

accordingly opened an olfice for tlie practice of his 

professian. 

He liad not heen long at the bar 

„ ', .*^'. before he attracted the kindly notice 

March banks. 

of Chancellor Bromfield L. Kidley, 

one of the most distinguished jurists and accomplished 
gentlemen that ha.ve adorned the bench of this State. 
'J'he year 1825 saw two notable additions to the j\[cMinn- 
ville bar. Andrew J. Marchbanks (18()4:-1865), who 
found old Monroe not a, |)rofitable place in which to 
i)rosecnte his kiw studies, in 182;] returned home, and 
in 1825 located at j\fcMinnvil!e, ^\]iere he was after- 
wards twenty-five years on the circuit bench. In the 
same year, Bromfield L. Kidley (1804-1869), a native of 
jSTorth Carolina, and a graduate of Chapel Hill, emi- 
grating to Tennessee, also settled at McMinnville, and 
was subsequently twenty yeai-s Chancellor of his division. 
There wa.s only three montlis dii!'erence in their ages, 
and they had an even start for their remarkably parallel 
careers. Ridley was the more accomplished, by reason 
of his superior mental training and education; but 
Marchbanks' rugged manner only made his unbending 
integrity the more conspicuous. Eidley commenced an 
entire stranger with rather limited means; ^Marchbanks 
with no acquaintance and w ithout any means. But they 
each had in abundance the one thing- that has con- 
tributed more than any other to the success of men, 
namely, a fixed determination to succeed in his profes- 
sion. Chancellor Eidley was always prompt, active, 
energetic and laborious, and these characteristics lie had 
in common with Judge Goodpastm-e. He was an elder 
in the Cumberland Presbvterian Cliurch. and a noble 



44 JEFFKKSON DILI.ARD GOODPASTUKE. 

Christian gentleman, \v]io grappled many hearts to him 
with hooks of steel. Judge Goodpasture always cher- 
ished his memory with the deepest veneration. 

I'erha})s Chancellor Jiidley, who was 

^" uniiormily kind to the young men 

Master. • , •' ^ 

just comuiencing the practice, was 

touched 1)y the hard struggle that was maaifestly betore 
young Goodpasture, as well as attracted hy his sturdy 
virtues. At any rate, when lulward N. Cullours term 
as Clerk and Master expired, in 184T, without his 
knowledge or solicitation, Chancellor Bidley announced 
his i)urpose to appoint him to the vacancy. Duiing all 
his life Judge Goodpasture had the rare faculty of 
attracting the notice and inspiring the confldencc of all 
with whom he was associated. Just before his first term 
as Clerk and Master expired, he chanced to be in Smith- 
ville, where Chancellor Ridley Avas liolding court. 
"While there Chancellor llidley approached him in this 
uianner: "^Iv. Goodpasture, is it not about time yon 
were renewing your bond?" He answered that his tei'ui 
would expire before the next sitting of the Chancery 
Court at Livingston, but added that he was not 
acquainted in Smithville, and would not be able to give 
l>und lliere. ''I will arrange that,"" said Chancellor 
Jiidley, and when the bond was wiitten up, himself 
})rocured the necessary sureties, and gave him an order to 
be entered on his minutes, re-a])])ointing him for a 
second term. 

-ludge Goodi)asture reaJi;^ed his ini- 
At Lebanon 1=1 1 p l^ i- c 

_ ^ . ]»erlect cqmpment lor the practice of 
Law School. _ ^ f ^ 

his profession, and detennined as 
soon as he should realize from his office suiiicient fees 



JUDGE ABRAHAM CARUTHERS. 45 

for that purpose, to attend tlic law school, then just 
established at Lebanon by Judge Abraham Caruthers. 
Accordingly he entered the law class of 18i8-9, the 
second taught in Cumberland University. Judge 
Caruthers had then associated with him, as additional 
professors. Judge Nathan Green, late of the Supreme 
C*ourt and Chancellor Bromfield L. Ridley. It was a 
class of fifty-six magnificent young men, many of whom 
ha\"e achieved more than a local reputation. There was 
Judge Abram L. Deuioss, the near neighbor and intimate 
friend of Judge Goodpasture, in Nashville, who saw him 
laid to rest in Mount Olivet; Nathan Green, Jr., the 
present Chancellor of Cumberland University, who suc- 
ceeded his father as one of the professors of law; Eobert 
Hatton, the brilliant Congressman and gallant Con- 
federate General; Col. John F. House, the orator and 
statesman, who represented the Hermitage district in 
Congress in a manner not unworthy of Bell and 
Grundy; Judge Wm. S. McLemore, of the circuit bench; 
Gov. James D. Porter, who was first assistant Secretary 
of State, under President Cleveland's first administra- 
tion; Chancellors John Somers and B. J. Tarver, and 
many others who took the highest rank in their 
profession. 

While at Lcl'anon, ]\Ir. Goodpasture 
Judge Abraham |^og,.j^,^^ .^.^th Judge Caruthers, who 
Caruthers. , i n i i • 

became much attached to liim. 

When he was about to leave Judge Caruthers declined 
to receive any compensation for his entertainment until 
a.ssured that its payment would be the cause of no 
embarrassment to him. Judge Abraham Caruthers 
(1803-1862) was a native of Smith Comity, Tennessee. 



46 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

He studied law and coinincnced the practice in Colum- 
bia, but returned to Carihage, and became Circuit Judge, 
at the age of thirty, under appointment of Governor 
Carroll, and continued to hold the position until he 
resigned in 18-17, to enter upon the work of establishing 
a law school in Lebanon. He discarded the old plan of 
lectures, and assigned as the daily lesson a given portion 
of the text, upon which the students were i"ig"idly exam- 
ined. Tliis he followed l)y a system of moot courts. 
For this purpose he found no text book exactly suited 
to his use, and to meet the Avant, he prepared a pam- 
phlet of forty pages, which he modestly called his 
"})rinier.'' The catalogue of 1848-9 announces thcit 
"two tracts have been prepared by one of the professors, 
tlie first containing the History of a Law-Suit, in the 
Circuit Conrt of Tennessee, noting incidentally the 
jurisdiction and mode of proceeding in all the other 
courts."' . . . Such was the humble beginning of 
Caruthers' History of a Law-Suit, now a standard text- 
book found in the library of every Tennessee lawyer. 

Hon. John M. Bright has paid this beautiful tribute 
to Judge Caruthers: "He was modest as he was meri- 
torious, consistent as he was con^icientious, useful as he 
was laborious, exalted in principle as he wa& liberal in 
spirit, profound as he was accurate, sound as a lawyer, 
able as a jurist, popular as a professor, successful as an 
author, iireproachable as a citizen, exemplary as a 
Christian."' 

Among tlie first l)usiness entrusted 
Joseph Bates. . t i /< i j c^ i 

to Judge (ioodpasture, alter he came 

to the bar, was his employment to write the ^ill of 
Joseph Bates (1777-1849), who lived in Bates' Cove, 



KLIJAH GARRETT. 47 

ueax Monroe, on the Livingston road. He was a man 
of strong intellect, of fair education and well posted on 
current events. In religion he was a Cumberland Pres- 
byterian, and in politics a Democrat. He was a pros- 
perous man of good, sound judgment; proud of Bates' 
Cove, on which lie built one of the first, if not the very 
iirst, brick house in the county. He owned many 
negroes, whom ho treated well, but made profitable. He 
was the father of the late Rev. Thos. F. Bates, and a 
cousin of Mrs. Harvey JM. Watterson, the mother of 
Henry "Watterson, and of Rev. Joseph H. Bates, who 
married a sister of Judge CTOodi)asture. Mr. Bates died 
in April, 18-19, wliile Judge Goodpasture was at Leba- 
non, and he was called home to prove his will, which he 
had witnessed as well as written. Afterwards the will 
was contested and he defended it through all the courts, 
and at last had the pleasure of seeing it sustained in 
the Supreme Court. 

One of the highest evidences of the 
trust and confidence reposed in Judge 
Goodpasture, was the great number of wills he was 
called upon to write. He wrote the will of the original 
old pioneer ''Big'' Joe Copeland, a perfect giant, who 
is said to have cracked walnuts with his teeth, and who 
was often known to reach over the fence and lift two 
hundred pound porkers out of the pen, and put them 
in the scales. He took great interest in relating the 
circumstances under which ho wrote the will of Elijah 
Garrett. It was a bitter cold day, with a light snow 
falling. But being informed tliat the occasion was 
urgent, he proceeded without delay, though it was then 
nearly night, and Mr. Garrett lived on Wolf River, some 



48 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

twelve or fifteen miles awav. lie found the old man 
apparently in a very low stale, so feeble, indeed, that 
he began to doul)t whether he had not arrived too late 
after all. Upon invitation ho took a chair liy the fire, 
thinking to warm himself before he should begin his 
work. After a little, JMr. Garrett roused u}) and beiran 
to talk. Presently his neighbor. Cope, Avas mentioned, 
and he began to tell of his nimierous fights with Cope. 
He had whipped liim, he said, many times l)efore they 
left Virginia, Imt he was so persistent and stubborn, 
that he had to repeat it frequently after their arrival in 
Tennessee. As he talked he became excited, got out of 
bed, ate a hearty supper, and continued his animated 
discourse, until Judge Goodpasture expressed a wisli to 
retire, it being too late to undertake the work in hand. 
A bed uas prepared for him in the room, and being tired 
he slept soundly. In the morning Mr. Garrett again 
commenced on Cope, but Judge Goodpasture suggest- 
ing that if there was a will to be written they had better 
be at it, he called one of his sons to go for brother West 
and brother JMatheny, two good men of the neighbor- 
hood, who were to witness his will. When they parted 
he said "My son, you will never see me again in the 
flesh," wliich proved entirely true, the old man having 
died a few days afterwards. 

Elijah Garrett was a good man, a devout Christian and 
a useful citizen. He was a faithful minister in tlie 
Primitive Baptist Church, as were also three of his sons, 
and one of his negroes. AVhile they were waiting for 
brother West and brother JMatheny, he said to -Judge 
Goodpasture: "Eight there, standing in that door, last 
Sunday week, I heard my son, John Garrett, preach the 



FXIJAH GARRETT. 49 

ablest sermon I ever heard fall from the lips of a man. 
I imagined he was very much such a preacher as the 
apostle Panl." "Well," replied the Judge, "Paul was 
a man of considerable reputation in his day." 

Xow John Garrett had been rather wild in liis youth, 
so that, it was said, his brothers expressed some little 
incredulity when he made a profession of religion. 
Judge Goodpasture, some years later, made the first 
speech delivered in the Mountain Distaict against Know- 
Nothingism. It was in the Wolf River country, and 
all the Garretts were present. The pass word of the 
Know-Xothings was said to have l>een, "Have you seen 
Sam?'' The applicant who was able to answer this 
question satisfactorily, was permitted to enter the lodge. 
Refening to this Knov.'-Nothing pass word, Judge 
Goodpasture told the story of John Garrett's admission 
to the church, as he said he had heard it. He said 
Elijah Garrett, his brother, asked him many searching 
questions, and turned him over to his brother, William. 
I>y this time the old man, who had John's conversion 
much at heart, was getting very nervous, and as William 
proceeded he became more so. Finally, Bob, the negro, 
began to ask him a few. 

"Wait," said the old man Avho could stand it no 
longer, "let me ask him a question." 

"Johnny, my son, did you hear a voice?" 

"Daddy, I did." 

"Not another word, boys, I'll eat hell if he ain't all 
right." 

The Garretts took no offense, but laughed as heartily 
as any at the pointed thrust. 
4 



50 JEFFERSON DILI,ARD GOODPASTURE. 

When Judge Goodpasture was ap- 

Statevs. pointed Clerk and Master, he had 

Troxdale. 

never made an argument in a law- 
suit. Ilis first appearance was in the ease of the State 
against Brit Collins, while he was in the law school at 
Lehanon. He had, however, soon after his admission 
to the bar, as Attorney- G-eneral pro tem. drawn the 
indictment in the celebrated case of the State against 
Troxdale, reported in Ninth Ilumphrej-s. Patsy Trox- 
dale was a young, buxom girl of about twenty, who 
lived with her father, Edward O'Neal, on his little moun- 
tain farm in the eastern part of Overton Coimty. The 
otb.er members of her family were her mother, and her 
fiXG brothers and sisters, the oldest of whom was Jack- 
son, a lad of twelve. Patsy having commenced to keep 
the company of certain dissolute young men, her father 
was very indignant, and threatened to exclude her from 
his home. On the evening of Friday, September 15, 
184(), she entertained Nicholas Stephens and William 
Upton, who were afterwards indicted jointly with her. 
Saturday morning a peculiar smoke was observed in the 
direction of the O'Neal fann. On Monday the hon-ible 
truth appeared. O'Neal, his wife and their five little 
children had l>een murdered with an axe, their bodies 
])iled together, and the house Inirned down over them. 
The defendants were convicted. In the Supreme Court 
the judgment was revereed, but not on account of any 
defect in the indictment, which was drawn in strict con- 
formity to the technical pleadings of that day. 

j\Iany years afterwards, by appoint- 
ment of the com-t, and without hope 
of reward. Judge Goodpasture defended a prisoner 



STATE VS. LOGSTON. 5I 

charged with a shiiilar butchery, who greatly enhsted 
his sympathy, aud in whose behalf he made a 
strong and earnest effort. Just after the war, 
there lived in Fentress County a family consisting of 
the grandmother, her daughter and three little grand- 
children; James, the oldest of whom was not over eight. 
One day in Novembeo-, 1868, the two women and the 
second child were found dead in their house, having 
been murdered the day before, with an axe. James' 
head was badly crushed, but he finally recovered. The 
youngest child, an infant, was not hurt. 

Calvin Logston, a young Kentuckian, of rather good 
appearance, and Jane and Eliza Brown, were indicted in 
the Circuit Court of Fentress County for the murder. 
Logston was tried and convicted, and the sentence of 
death pronounced against him. He appealed to the 
Supreme Court. Judge Goodpasture appeared as liis 
counsel, and at his request, in view of the extreme 
penalty involved, the court, then sitting in sections, 
heard this case in full ]>ench. A report of the pro- 
ceedings, published at the time, says: "We do not recol- 
lect ever witnessing a trial that produced so marked an 
effect upon the court and bar. There was not a stir in 
the court room; at the bar stood the prisoner, whose life 
depended upon the result. The com-t and counsel 
seemed to feel the resjsonsibility resting upon them. 
There was a solemn earnestness in the proceedings. 
The argument of the counsel for the prisoner was aide. 
He discussed the questions of law^ arising upon the record 
with great force and clearness. The argument of the 
Attorney-General in behalf of the State, exhibited great 
ability, candor and fairness.'"' 



52 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

The court reversed tlie jutlgnient and remanded the 
cause for a new trial. Judge Goodpasture followed the 
case back to the Circuit Court of Fentress County. The 
venue was then changed from Jamestown to Livingston, 
and a new trial had, again resulting in a conviction, 
mainly on the testimony of the little boy, James, which 
he thought was too questionaljle to allow so important 
a verdict to rest upon it. He again appealed for Logs- 
ton, and again appeared as his counsel in the Supreme 
Court, but his earnest effort proved impotent to save 
his poor client, who soon afterwards suffered the death 
penalty at the hands of the Sheriff of Fentress County. 
From the time Judge Goodpasture 
entered the practice, he was a very 
busy man. Always prom])t and accurate in the dis- 
charge of his duties as Clerk and Master, he was at the 
same time building up a practice in the Circiut (*ourt 
of the county. In addition to his official and profes- 
sional duties, he was also beginning to exercise and 
develop his remarkable talent for trading. There has 
rarely been a more successful trader. His forte lay in 
an unusually sound judgment, upon which he was able 
to rest with absolute satisfaction, without regard to the 
opinions of others; the rapid, almost instantaneous proc- 
ess by which he reached his conclusions, and the un- 
Jiesitating, undaunted, tireless, sleepless manner in 
^\•hich he prosecuted every purpose he had matured. He 
A\'as bold to a degree, but, to use his own ex})ression, 
there was a streak of caution in his nature that deterred 
him from risking much, where the result appeared to 
depend in any considerable measure on chance, rather 
than Judgment. He traded in anything and everything 



REV. THOS. F. BATES. 53 

in whicli liis watchful eye could see a profit. But he 
never overtraded himself. During all his life he was 
never so involved as to im}>eril his solvency. Even in 
the panic of 1893. which broke so many Ijrilliant finan- 
ciers of Xaslndlle, though he was and had been for 
twelve or fourteen years trading largely in real estate, 
and notwithstanding the loss of eight or ten thousand 
dollars, througli the failures of the Commercial Xationai 
Bank and the Southern Iron Company, it was never 
necessai-y for him to sell a foot of land at a sacrifice; but, 
on the contrary, he was always able to buy Avhen a great 
bargain oifered. 

Jle also ventured, to a limited degree, into commer- 
cial fields. The reader will Ijear in mind that three 
years previous to this time he was well-nigh penniless, 
and his elf oris were greatly paralyzed for the want of 
means, and he was now trying every avenue, and bend- 
ing every energy to put himself in independent financial 
condition. On March -1, 18.j0, he entered into a four 
years partnership with his friend. Thomas F. Bates, and 
his brother, James M. Goodj^asture, for the sale of gen- 
eral merchandise in Livingston. 

Thomas F. Bates (1822-1897). was a 
Rev. Thos. ^^^^ ^^ Joseph Bates, heretofore men- 
F. Bates. '■ 

tioned. He had received a classical 

education at Alpine Institute, on the mountain near his 
father's, a school that had been established by Dr. John 
L. Dillard (1793-1881), one of the fathers of the Cum- 
berland Presbyterian Church, and bore a high reputa- 
tion for many years. Dr. Dillard rode the Overton 
circuit as early as 1815. Judge Goodpasture was named 
for him. and under his ministration, in his vouth. be- 



54 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

came a nieinber, and, many years afterward, an elder in 
the Cuml>erland Presbyterian Clinrch. While Mr. Bates 
was there, the school was being ta,iig"ht by Jolin L. 
Jleveridge, afterwards Governor of Illinois, J. L. Hough 
and liev. Wm. M. Dillard. He studied for the minis- 
try and became a well known Cuml>erland Presbyterian 
preacher. After his father's death, he lived for a time 
at the farm, in Bates* Cove, but finally settled at Shel- 
byville. Judge Goodpasture wrote of him a few years 
ago: "Fletcher Bates, as we always called him, is a fine 
preacher, and one of the best men I ever knew. He is 
patriotic — loves his country and friends, and has a great 
attachment for the old county where he was born and 
reared. Nothing gratifies him more than to hear of 
the success of an Overton C^ounty man. I don't think 
he preaches much now, but is living quietly at home, 
where he takes great interest in his garden, his flowera 
and small fruits of which he has a great abundance. He 
is well to do, has plenty of everything he needs, and 
seems to be living a peaceful and hapi)y life. He is 
now seventy-three years old." 

Dr. James jMcDonnold Ciood past are 

Dr. J. M. (182v-18Ui), was three years vounger 

Goodpasture. ' . 

than the Judge, and was his favorite 

brother. When a lad, he had a disease in one of his 
limbs, which necessitated its amputation, when he was 
only thirteen years old. He had a warm heart, and was 
a man of nnusually fine feeling and sentiment. He 
studied medicine and was a successful physician, at 
Cookeville, where he was in active ])ractice, until he 
died, at the age of forty-nine years. During one term 
of six years, he held the office of Glerk and blaster. 



DR. J. M. GOODPASTURE;. 55 

He was a devout Christian and an elder in the Cumber- 
land Presbyterian Church. 

By the tenns of tlieir partnership agreement, Judge 
Goodpasture was not to give his personal attention to 
the business. 



CHAPTER V. 

One can liardly conceive the restless 

uns or enemy that characterized Judt^e 

Congress. 

Goodpasture dnring this period of liis 

life. Discharging with care and diligence his official 
dnties; prosecuting with energy and success the prac- 
tice of his profession; trading in everything that prom- 
ised a profit; engaging, though not extensively in the 
mercantile business — yet^ within the first five years of 
his career, ho found time to make an active canvass of 
the eight counties of the ]\Iountain district, as a Demo- 
cratic candidate for Congress. 

He was not a man of many books — he did not have 
time to read them. His first great enemy was poverty, 
which, he thought, had virtually cost him several years 
of Ms life. Poverty had denied him the finished educa- 
tion he believed necessary to the attainment of the 
highest eminence, and which, in after life, it was liis 
chief care to provide for his children. It was the gaunt 
figure of poverty that interposed itself between him and 
every exalted aspiration and every ambitious hope of his 
early life. No wonder then, that the first struggle of his 
young manhood should have been with this blighting 
foe. He entered the contest with a courage and deter- 
mination only equaled by liis absolute confidence in 
the result. If he pursued it further than the demands 
of a learned and exacting profesison would justify, it is 
matter of little surprise. And that he should have en- 



COL. JOHN H. SAVAGE. 57 

tered the domain of jjolitics, was only in keeping willi 
the universal practice of the hiwyers of the Mountain 
District, who esteemed political position as one of the 
fruits of the legal profession. 

His competitor in this canvass was 
Col. John H. ^.^^ j^^^j^ ^ Savage (181-5 — ). a 
Savage. 

chivalrous gentleman, a true friend 

of the people, a gallant soldier and an eminent states- 
man. Coming home from the ^Mexican war with the 
rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, and hearing upon his per- 
son the scars received while gallantly leading an assault 
U})on the Mexican stronghold at Molino-del-Eey, he was 
easily elected to Congress in 1849, though opposed by 
such popular men as Sam Turney and John B. Rodgers. 
In Congress he had heen hardly less distinguished than 
in the army. It was in 1850 he made the eloquent 
speech on the Union, inserted in Field's vScrap Book, 
which closes with this sentiment: '"I have ever hoped 
that onr ship of state, self-poised upon the billows, would 
gather the tempest in her sails and fly with lightning 
speed to the home of transcendent national glory amid 
the plaudits of an admiring world. And for this I shall 
still he ready to make any sacrifice except my honor 
and my right to be free and equal on e\'ery foot of laud 
beneath the stars and stripes." 

This was in 18.51. Both candidates were of the same 
political party, and Judge Gootli>asture was unable to 
overcome the advantage that Colonel Savage's distin- 
guished services had given him, but he made an honor- 
able race, and one that did him great credit, and some 
service in the way of a favorable introduction to the 
people of the district. 



58 JEFFERSON DIELARD GOODPASTURE. 



Congressional 



Judge Goodpasture was never elecied 



to Congress. Some twenty-five 
Conventions. nj i -, ■ 

years alterwards his name was pre- 
sented, with a multitude of otliers, before a number of 
Democratic conventions assembled in rapid succession, 
during the period in which two members-elect of tlie 
Forty-Fourth Conga-ess from the fouiih district of Ten- 
nessee, died before taking their seats; and while he 
always showed much, sometimes more, positive strength 
than any of his competitors, it was his misfortune to 
live in a sparsely settled mountain county, and the 
nomination uniformly went to one of the rich and 
populous counties on the other side of the district. Flo 
soon found that though he might, and did in more than 
one convention, receive a majority of the votes cast, it 
was impossible for any of the mountain counties to 
effect a combination that would bring to its man the 
two-thirds vote necessary to a nomination. 

Colonel Savage admit.s that he re- 
Marries. • 1 J 1 , • ■ 1 
ceived at least one surpnse m the 

contest between him and Judge Cloodpasture. He ex- 
pected a large majority in the 0]ym})us district of 
Overton County. AVhen the returns came in, the vote 
was found to be ])ractica]ly nnanimous against him. 
The explanation he received was, that Judge Good- 
pasture's fiancee lived in that district, and had taken an 
active interest in his behalf. The reference A\'as to 
Sarah Jane, the youngest daughter of Jacob and Jane 
C. (Marchbanks) Dillen, whom Judge Goodpasture mar- 
ried the following spring, namely: on the 16th day of 
May, 1852. The ceremony occurred at the home of 
lier brother-in-law and guardian, H. E. Eyan, in Albany, 



THE MARCHBANKSES. 59 

Kentucky, the Eev. Josiali G. Harris, of the Cumber- 
land Presbyterian Church, officiating. 

Jacob Dillen was born in Ilcniv 
Jacob Dillen. 

County, Virginia, December 11, 1795, 

and moved with his father, Henry Dillen, an old Kevolu- 

tionary soldier, to the Wolf River section of Overton 

Countv, Tennessee, about 1810. He adopted the leaal 

profession, and though he died on the 21st day of 

August, 1835, in the very prime of life, so successful 

had he been that he left each of his four children a 

patrimony of several thousand dollars. Sarah Jane, the 

youngest of these, was born on Wolf Eiver, May 4, 1835, 

and was, consequently, only three months old when her 

father died. 

Her mother, Jane Caroline, was the 

daughter of William Marchbanks, a 
Marcnbanksss. 

native of Scotland, who came from 

South CaroHna to Tennessee, and settled near the pres- 
ent village of Algood, in Putnam County, where 
she was born, November 23, 1807. Her mother was 
Jane Young, a sister of James Young (1787-1860), four- 
teen years sheriff of Jackson County and twice a repre- 
sentative in the State Legislature. He was grandfather 
of the late J. Howard Young, of Dixon Springs, and of 
Oliver F. Young, of Simpson's Mills. Andrew J. 
Marchbanks, the distinguished lawyer and jurist of 
McMinnville, was her brother. Her sister, Sallie, mar- 
ried Maj. Henry H. Atkinson, a lawyer of some prom- 
inence in Overton County. Sometime in the twenties, 
Major Atkinson was elected Circuit Court Clerk, at 
Monroe. He had as his deputy Jacob Dillen, who also 
studied law in his office. It was on a visit to her sister, 



6o JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

that Jane C. Marclibanks first met joimg Dillen, ^\•holn 
she married on the 3rd day of February, 1828. ]\irs. 
Dillen survived her husband only ten years. After liis 
death, she was married a second time, to Richard Poteet, 
and lived at Xetherland, on Spring Creek, where, on 
September 1!), 1845, she was thrown from a horse in 
a rocky branch near her home and instantly killed. 

Being now in fairly comfortaJjlc 
Charleston Com- fij^^j^^.^.^! condition, he took a still 
mercial Convention. 

more active interest in public af- 
fairs. He was a delegate to the Commercial Conven- 
tion of the Southem and AVestern States, which \\-as 
held in the city of Charleston during the week com- 
mencing on tlie 10th of April, 18.")1. This convention 
was a revelation, as well as a great ol)ject lesson to him. 
It was one of the most intellectual bodies ever assembk'd 
in America. Fifteen states were represented. The 
delegation embraced many of the most brilliant and 
widely known men of the Soutli and West. It was pre- 
sided over by Hon. Wm. C. Dawson, of Georgia, and in- 
cluded among its delegates, such men as IMatthew F. 
Maury, Clement C. Clay, Sr., Leslie Combs, James C. 
Jones, John II. Eeagan and Albert Pike. Judge Good- 
pasture took great interest in the proceedings. He was 
particularly captivated by General Pike. 

General Pike liad introduced a series 

Albert Pike's ^^ resolutions favoring a confedera- 
Address. 

tion of the Southern States, for the 

])urpose of l)uilding the Southern Pacific Kailroad. and 
made a powerfid speech in advocacy of them. He so 
charmed the Convention, that in the evening session he 
was called out again. He was a man of splendid pres- 



FEEDING BUZZARDS. 6l 

euce, faultlessly attired, wearing neatly fitting kid gloves 
on the outside of which a brilliant diamond sparkled in 
the gas light. When he appeared in his perfect self-pos- 
session, and paid his beautifid tribute to the ladies, 
Judge Goodpasture thought he was the personification 
of grace and gallantry. 

"Only a week or two ago," he said, "I was among the 
snows of the Korth. Even when I left Washington 
there were no leaves on the trees. But when I arrived 
Jiere, I found the trees in leaf and the flowers m bloom. 
Sii", there is an Eastern fable which tells us of a lady of 
such benignancy and grace, that when the light of her 
eyes strikes the trees, or glances upon the flowers, the 
trees are instantly in leaf and the flowers in bloom; and 
I know now, after seeing the fair forms and bright eyes, 
^\•hich grace and enlighten those boxes, why it is that 
the trees are in leaf and the flowers in bloom in Charles- 
ton." 

Judge Goodpasture, in liis youth and younger man- 
hood, had great ambition to be a speaker, and the im- 
pression made upon him by the grace and beauty and 
power of General Pike's oratory can hardly ]>e over- 
estimated. The writer lias reason to know something of 
the cft'cct it produced, as he has, for these forty years, 
borne the General's first name, as a direct result of 
his magnetic eloquence. 

It was in Charleston Judge Good- 

^* '"^ pasture first met the late Judge 

Buzzards. 

Nathaniel Baxter. Walking out on 

the beach one day he saw an innumerable multitude of 
buzzards, collecting from the four quarters of the heav- 
ens, and fighting and scrambling over some object he 



62 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

could not see. It turned out that Judge Baxter had 
been to the market and bought a lot of haslets, which he 
was throwing out on the beach, in order to see the re- 
markable si>eetaele of hundreds of perfectly gentle buz- 
zards falling in a black, scrambling, fighting, ravenous 
uiass, two or three feet deep, and rising almost in- 
stantl}', without leaving a vestige, not even a throttle, 
to mark the place where the object of their greed had 
been. 

In 1856, he was a delegate to the 
National Demo- ^t.^^-^j^.^| Democratic Convention, 
cratic Convention. . ,,. . . ^ t . 

wnich met m Cincinnati, June 3-0, 

and nominated James Buchanan for the Presidency, 
lie took his wife and baby with him, traveling thi-ough 
the coiintry in a buggy as far as Lexington, Kentucky. 
'J'he beautiful blue grass region had on its richest ver- 
dure, and its lovely landscapes made their Jouniey vei'v 
enjoyable. While at the Convention he called on Hon. 
Thomas li. Benton, who was himself aspiring to the 
Presidency, and who assured him that he was "sound, 
sir, both in mind and body.'' He had a contesting dele- 
gation from Missouri. Not having been assigned seats 
upon the floor, immediately after the election of the 
I'resident pro tem. they forcilJy thrust the doorkeeper 
aside and rushed into the hall, taking possession of the 
vacant seats assigned to New York, whose delegates were 
all excluded pending a contest. Their leader mounted 
a seat and addressed the Convention, amid cries of 
"Order! order!" Great excitement prevailed, until an 
agreement was reached, and the contestants retired. 
The bold leader of this contesting delegation was the 
Hon. B. Gratz Brown, whom Judge Goodpasture;, as 



STATE SENATOR. 63 

elector for the Fonrtli Congressional District, supported 
for \iee President on the ticket with Horace Greeley, 
in 1873. 

In 1857, he resigned the office of 
Clerk and Master, and was elected to 
the State Senate, defeating 'John Bowles, who had been 
a member of the House of Eepresentatives, in 1851, and 
a member of the Senate from 1853 to 1857. Bowles 
afterwards achieved great local notoriet}^ during the re- 
construction period in Tennessee. 

In his legislative career Judge Cloodpasture mani- 
fested the same accurate judgment of public affairs, and 
the same firm and energetic manner of dealing with 
them that characterized the whole of his private and 
professional life. He opposed the bill providing for a 
conventional rate of interest in a speech of strong, prac- 
tical sense, wliich affords some insight into the financial 
maxims by which liis private business was influenced. 
"I hold," he said, "that a man is none the better off by 
having liis pocket full of money, if his notes are out for 
it, bearing even six per cent, interest; Imt if he is paying- 
ten per cent, interest, it would be better for that man 
to drain him of liis money at once and relieve liim of 
his debt." 

"Speculation, however," he says in another connec- 
tion, "never did and never will increase the real wealth 
of Ihe country; whilst one speculator is getting rich, 
another is becoming bankrupt. ... It is to labor that 
we are indebted for all our prosperity." 

He introduced a resolution proposing an amendment 
to the constitution, providing for the election of Gov- 
ernor and members of the General Assembly once in four 



64 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

years, and for quadrennial se^^sions of the Legislature, 
which he supported in an able speech. The resolution 
provoked wide discussion in the press of the State, 
drawing out strong editorials from such papei-s as the 
Brownsville Journal, McMinnville Xew Era and Athens 
Post. The Union and American, the leading Demo- 
cratic daily at the capital, declared that the urgent 
necessity for such an amendment was patent to the 
most casual thinker, and expressed a confidence that if 
the proposition were referred to the people it would he 
adopted hy an overwhelming majority. The resolution 
pa.s,sed the Senate, hut was defeated in the House hy a 
narrow margin. 

His chief service to the State, however, was in con- 
nection with a resolution, which he introduced on the 
18th of ^larch, 18-58, just l^efore the final adjouniment 
of the session, providing for the appointment of a joint 
select committee to investigate the manner in which 
the securities of the several free banks had been managed 
in the office of the comptroller, and whether any in- 
terest had been improperly paid on the State coupon 
bonds. They were directed to report on or before the 
first day of the succeeding October, and were empowered 
to send for pei-sons and papers. The committee ap- 
pointed under this resolution, of which Judge Good- 
pasture was chairman, sat all summer making a thor- 
ough investigation of the majtter referred to them. 
They detected the frauds of the Exchange Bank; the 
eml)ezzlement by the Secretary of State to the amount 
of fifty thousand dollars; and the over payment of in- 
terest to about the same amount. Their report, mak- 
ing a volume of several hundred pages, was made to 



MEETS THE GREY-EYED MAN OF DESTINY. 65 

Governor Harris, and showed great skill in the manage- 
ment of the investigation. A thousand copies were 
printed for the information of the public. 

Meets the Wliile in Nashville Judge Good- 
Grey-eyed Man pasture had the pleasure of meeting 
of Destiny. Qen. William Walker (183i-1860), 
the "grey-ej'ed man of destiny," who was then just 
back from his brilliant career in Nicarauga. He was at 
that time under indictment in the United States District 
Court of Louisiana, for beginning in the territory of the 
United States, a military enterprise to be carried on 
from there against the State of Nicarauga. His father 
lived in Nashville, where he himself was raised and edu- 
cated, and on this occasion gave a dinner in honor of 
his distinguished son, to which many prominent people 
were invited. 
5 



CHAPTER VI. 

At the expiration of liis term in the 

... *" * f Senate, Judere Goodpastnre declined 
Witchcraft. ' ^ '■ 

to be a candidate for re-election, and 

determined to devote liis time wholly to the practice of 
his profession. The Moimtain District, extending from 
the fertile valleys along the Cnmberknd River, to the 
sterile plateau on top of the monntain, at that time 
contained every shade of character and every degree of 
civilization to be found in the country. Less than ten 
years before Judge Goodpasture came to the bar, there 
occurred, in Fentress County, the only trial for witch- 
craft ever had in the State. He knew all the parties 
connected with it well. Judge Abraham Caruthers was 
on the bench and John B. McCormick was Attorney- 
General. The resident lawyers at Jamestown then, 
were John M. Clemens, the father of Mark Twain and 
Wni. B. Eiehardson. 

Subsequently, Clemens' law library came into the 
possession of Judge Goodpasture, and a few years ago 
he sent Mark Twain his father's copy of Tidd's Prac- 
tice. He acknowledged, its receipt in a characteristic 
letter. He expressed an appreciation of the books, on 
account of his father's signature, which he recognized; 
but referring to their contents, he expressed regret that 
some book other than a law book should not have been 
found, as he was the one man most incapable of under- 



A TRIAL FOR WITCHCRAFT. 67 

standing' the law, unless it were his elder brother, who 
practiced in the West. 

The celebrated mountain lands, of which Mark Twain 
writes in the Gilded Age, lie in Fentress County; and 
the picturesque village he describes under the name of 
Obedstown is none other than its county site. I'hc 
court-house, on the fence surrounding which the male 
population of the village were sitting, chewing tobacco 
and spitting at bumble-bees and such other objects 
of interest as appeared within their wide range, 
while they waited the arrival of the mail; and to 
which one of them referred, when he obseiwed that, '"if 
the judge is a gwine to hold cote," he reckoned he would 
have to "roust" his sow and jiigs out of the court- 
house, was the same in wliich this singular case was tried. 

It seems that an old man by the name of Stout, \\'ho 
lived on Obeds Eiver, was arrested for bewitching the 
beautiful daughter of a certain man, named Taylor, who 
lived on the mountain. The defendant was treated with 
much rigor, and his person abused by the various ex- 
periments to which he was subjected, for the purpose of 
establishing his guilt. The guards had taken the ])re- 
eaution to remove the lead from their guns, and to load 
them with silver, which was considered the only metal 
to which a wizard is not impalpable. 

The accused was carried before Esquire Joshua Owens, 
a leading magistrate of the county, whom Judge (lood- 
pasture knew intimately for many years aftenvards. 
The prosecutor and many of his neighbors were intro- 
duced as witnesses on behalf of the State, and proved, 
in addition to the particular facts charged, that the 
defendant had freqitently been seen to escape out of 



68 JBFFKRSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

liouses through the key holes in the doors; and that he 
had on divers occasions not only operated on the hodies 
and minds of luunan beings, and that at a distance of ten 
or fifteen miles, hnt also on horses, cattle and other 
stock. 

On this evidence the defendant was fonnd gnilty and 
Ijound over to the next term of the Circuit Comt. 
When tlie grand jury met. General McCormick being of 
opinion the prosecution could not be sustained, refused 
to prefer a bill of indictment. The defendant was ac- 
cordingly discharged amid great excitement, some of 
the mountaineers Ijoldly declaring that it would be bet- 
ter to live without laws, if such offenders could escape 
with impunity. 

Stout, on the other hand, went before the grand 
jury and indicted a number of pereons concerned in his 
arrest, for assault and iDattery. When these cases came 
on to bo heard before Judge Canithers and a jury of the 
county, the defendants admitted the assault and battery 
and justiiied on the ground that it was committed in 
arresting a felon, relying on the statutes of Henry Vlll. 
and James I., making witchcraft a felony, which they de- 
clared had never been repealed in this State. The en- 
lightened Judge, however, charged the jury that they 
were '•destructive of, repugnant to, or inconsistent with 
the freedom and independence of this State, and form 
of government,"' and were never in force here by virtue 
of the act of IT 78, and the defendants were accordingly 
convicted. 

The bar that practiced at Livingston 
Sam Turney. i • .1 • • i 1? 1^1 

during this period w-as one 01 the 

strongest in the State. On account of Judge Good- 



SAM TUKNEY. 69 

pasture's interest in him, particular mention will be 
made of Sam Tiirney, who was not onh^ a successful 
lawyer and politician, but one of the most unique char- 
acters this State has produced. He was a warm friend 
of Judge Goodpasture, who used to relate man}- anec- 
dotes illustrafing his eccentricities and peculiarities. 
He was born in Smith County, on the farm now owned 
by Hon. Sam Young, near Dixon's Springs. In his 
youth he lived for a time with Moses Fisk, at Hilham, 
working on the farm to pay for the instruction he re- 
ceived at the hands of that eminent educator. When 
Judge Goodpasture was a boy, he was shown large piles 
of stumps on Fisk's farm that were said to have been 
dug up and hauled there by Turney. After he came to 
the bar he moved to Sparta and made that his home 
until his death, which occurred about the close of tiie 
civil war. He was a member of the State Senate from 
1839 to 1847. In 1841, he was Speaker of that body, 
and one of the '"immortal thirteen," who prevented the 
election of United States Senators by the Twenty-Fo\n-th 
General Assembly, in which the Whigs had a majority 
of one. Tiu-ney was not a partisan. He did not care 
anything about party. In 1856, when he was a candi- 
date for Congress, and Judge Gardenhire was spoken of 
as his competitor, he said to Judge Goodpasture: '"I 
can beat Mr. Gardenhire, and I'll give him choice of 
sides; if he wants the Democrat side, I'll take the Know- 
Xothing side; or if he wants the Know-Xothing side, 
I'll take t'other side." But the Democrats nominated 
his brother, Hopkins L. Turney, and it was in his in- 
terest that he was induced to join such partisan Demo- 
crats as Samuel H. Laughlin and Andrew Johnson in 



70 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

their cletennined eil'oi't to defeat the election of two 
Whig Senators. 

Tiirney was very careless of his personal appearance. 
It was not. at all imusnal, as he rode into town, to see 
a shirt sleeve or a drawers leg hanging ont of his saddle 
hags. On one occasion Jndge Goodpastnre had spent 
the night with him, and as they came in next morning, 
he left a heavy blue blanket with a tailor to be made 
into an overcoat. When he had gone a short distance 
the tailor hailed him and a.sked him to return, stating 
that he had not taken his measure. 

"Xo difference," said j\Ir. Turney, "just put it all in, 
^\v. Gibbons, just put it all in.*' 

This indifference to personal ajipearance was not con- 
fined to his apparel. At a certain court in Jamestown, 
Turney, Goodpasture and James Snodgrass occupied the 
same room. Turney was a great reader, and seemed to 
have no choice of books, except he liked old books — the 
older the better. On this occasion, after Goodpa.sture 
and Snodgrass had retired, he found one that had long 
since lost its backs, and was soon absorbed in its con- 
tents. The tallow candle M-as about two inches long, 
and he read until it was quite consumed, when the room 
became perfectly dark. Presently he began a queer • 
little whick-a-whack noise, \\hich was kept up for some- 
time. Snodgrass grew quite restless and nervous and 
finally asked: 

"Sam, what in tlie blank are you doing?"' 

"Trimming my hair," was the response. 

Xext morning, after inspecting the job in a glass, 
Turney said: "God-a-mighty, Jim, if it ain't cut as well 
as if a barber had done it." 



SAM TURKEY. 7 I 

This profanity would not have heen allowed to go to 
print, had it not heen deeired to make it the occasion 
for recording the fact that Mr. Tumey abandoned the 
habit many years before his death. Early in his politi- 
cal career, he had been charged with being a deist, and 
in answering the charge, he went no further than to 
declare that he believed it right to do right, and appealed, 
to his constituents to judge his conduct by that rule. 
Sometime in the fifties, however, while he was attending 
the sittings of the Supreme Court, at Nashville, he be- 
came greatly interested in the meetings then being held 
there by Alexander Campbell, and in the end Joined the 
church and was baptized. He was stopping at the 
Sewanee Hotel, and rooming with Judge Goodpasture 
and Maj. A. A. Swope. The important will case of 
Peterman against Cope, was pending in the Supreme 
Court, but had not been heard. Tumey and Sw^ope 
■\\ere together in the case. The evening of his baptism, 
wliile he was sitting before the fire drying his socks, 
resting the heel of one foot on the toe of the other, and 
occasionally reversing the position, the Cope will case 
was mentioned. 

••'Major Swope, have you a brief in that case," asked 
Turney. 

The Major assured him he had. 

"Read it, Major, please." 

Major Swope read until he came to a point that 
struck Mr. Turney with imusual force. 

"Swope, read that again, please." 

Swope read it again. 

'"God-a-mighty dam, Swope, if we can't win on that." 
Xot another word was spoken for a full minute, when he 



72 JKFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

added, "but a man ought not to swear." Though, to 

use his own exin-essicn, the process of his rehgion was 

"gradual," he soon entirely abandoned the habit and 

became quite religious, sometimes lecturing on the 

Scriptures. 

Judge Goodpasture practiced his pro- 
Builds in the <» • ji i • 111.1 

lession with such vigor that he soon 
Country. 

built up a clientage not inferior to 

tliat of any of the distinguished lawyers with whom he 
was associated. He first lived in a frame house on the 
west side of the square in Livingston, where three of 
his children were bom. In 1860, he built a splendid 
brick residence in the country, two miles west of Liv- 
ingston, and moved into it just at the beginning of the 
civil war, and continued to live there until he moved 
to Nashville, in 1879. 

AVhen the war came on Judge Goodpasture gave his 
allegiance to his State, but never entered the army. 
Although he had led an exceedingly active life, the 
philosophy by which he lived had made liim few enemies 
and many friends. He was only giving the rule of Ms 
own conduct when he wrote to one of his sons: "MaJ<:e 
it a point from which you must never vary, always to do 
right; treat everybody kindly, rich and poor alike, and 
especially the unfortunate and neglected; permit no con- 
sideration to influence you to, in the smallest degree, 
slight any on account of poverty or position in society; 
avoid, as much as possible, the society of the wicked and 
dissipated, but at all times treat them politely and kindly; 
and be strictly moral and upright in all your conduct 
and de})ortment." 



A MYSTERIOUS HORSEMAN. 73 

The result was, he exi:)erienced a 
A Mysterious gjj .,,1^^ freedom from fear in those 
Horseman. 

perilous times, though he was some- 
times in imminent danger. With no firearms in his 
house, his doors were never locked, day or night, and 
he ne\'er refused to answer a call. One evening a 
horseman rode rapidly up to his front gate. "Wlien 
Judge Goodpasture had answered his summon.s, he 
stated that a man had been thrown from his horse and 
dangerously hurt at the lawn gate, some three hundred 
yards distant, and asked him to bring a light and oome 
to his assistance. The horseman then turned and rode 
back to his companion. It so chanced that two of liis 
wife's kinsmen, ^Villiam and Young Marchbanks, were 
spending the night with Judge Goodpasture. They 
were men of great courage and armed to the teeth. 
They asked the privilege of accompanying him and to 
guard against treachery, which was suspected, they car- 
ried their pistols in their hands. When they arrived at 
ilie lawn gate, no one was visible, and the only sign of 
life was the sound of retreating horse hoofs heard in the 
distance. 

About this time he experienced a re- 
markable evidence of the confidence 
his neighbors reposed in him. Old man Jewett, who 
lived in the upper part of the county, came to his house 
one day, to ask Judge Goodpasture to wTite him a pass 
to Union City, in West Tennessee. He said one of his 
souE, who was in the (Confederate army, was reported to 
1)0 dying there and he wanted to go to his bedside. 
Judge Goodpasture at first undertook to show him the 
absurdity of the request. Iiut ^Ir. Jewett still insisted 



74 JEFFERSON UILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

\i])()ii his writing the pa.<s. As lie iiad ridden Iwenly 
miles to get it, Jndge (.ioodpastnre was unwilling to dis- 
a|»i)()int him, and accordingly wrote an order, addressed 
to "All Officers and Soldiers of the United States Army, 
and of the Army of the Confederate States,"" and direct- 
ing tliem to ])ermit the bearer to pass without niolesta- 
tion or hinderance to the phice of his destination: e.\- 
jjlaining that he was a non-combatant, a good citizen 
and an honest man; and stating the sad mission that car- 
ried him from liomc To this he affixed his own signa- 
ture. The remarkable part of the incident is, that 
Ml'. Jewett passed safely through the lines of both 
armies with no other authority than this request of 
Judge Oood]iasture. 

Perha})s the sadest event of this 

^^ ° period was the death of his mother. 

His Mother. ' 

iu ^Tay, 18()4, while he was a prisoner 

in the hands of the Thirteenth Kentucky (Federal) 
Cavalry. It was a soui'ce of great sorrow to him that 
he was deprived of being present at her last moments. 
He always regretted that in his busy, active, jiressing 
life he had not been more thoughtful of his parents. 
Tn a letter to one of his sons, in 1880, he writes: 'T 
am getting along a little in years. 1 have just been 
thinking of what occurred to my mind after the death 
of your grandfather and mother. They were good peo- 
]»le and dearly loved their children, and felt a deep in- 
terest in their welfare. Jn their old da3'S nothing did 
them more good than a letter or a visit from one of their 
children. I did not think much about it then. I lived 
only a short distance from them and could and ought to 
liave visited them evei'v week or two. I am sorrv I did 



TINKER DAVE BEATY. 75 

not. I have regretted it ever since. It was not a want 

of affection for my jiarents, Init I did not realize the deep 

interest they felt in me. So, as time rolls on and cares 

increa.se, don't forget to write your father fre(|iiently 

and visit him occasionally."' 

The most desperate set of Federal 

guerillas in the ^Mountain District 
Beaty. '^ 

was the company commanded bj 
Tinker Dave Beaty, of Fentress County. Before the 
v.ar Judge Goodpasture had defended Beaty in the 
Circuit Court at Jamestown, on an indictment for a 
very grave offense. Tliis circumstance gained him im- 
munity from the hloody raids of his men during the war, 
as it also gave him a sort of protection during the 
equally dangerous time just succeeding that demoraliz- 
ing struggle. Ahout the close of the war, Judge Good- 
pasture met Tinker Dave for the first time after hostili- 
ties had commenced. He was somewhat embarrassed as 
he did not know how he would be received. After passing 
the compliments of the day he enquired for the news. 
"Xothing new," said Tinker, but after a moment he 
added, '"Well, I believe our men did kill a lot of the 
Hammock gang this morning.*' In the course of the 
conversation Judge Goodpasture observed that Beaty 
had never been at his house. "Xo, sir,"' he replied, "I 
had no business with you." 

This last statement he took as an 
The Courts assurance that Tinker still remem- 
Open Again. , i i • j. j ,i 

bered his former sendees, and wilJi 

his characteristic ability to turn an advantage to account 
he determined to make Tinker's friendship useful to 
him. "When the war closed there was a great aceumula- 



76 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

tion of business aMaiting the opening of (he courts. He 
had a niunber of bills ready when the first court met at 
Jamestown, which lie determined to file. It wa.'^ con- 
sidered a.? much as his life was worth to attend this 
court, and would be if he failed to receive Tinker Dave 
l>eaty's protection. Xo other lawyer ventured to appear. 
The evening before the court met, Judge Goodpasture 
rode directly to Beaty's honse, about twenty-five miles 
over the rongh. monntain roads, where he was received in 
a friendly spirit, and spent the night. In the morning 
Beaty rode with him into Jamestown, and after he had 
dispatched the business in hand, broiight him back to 
his house. Next day, when Judge Goodpasture was 
ready to depart, Beaty told him it would not be safe for 
him to go alone, and sent his brother, Flem, with him, 
as far as old man Hill's, at the foot of the mountiiin, 
whence he reached home in safety. From that day, 
Judge Goodpasture never missed a court at Jamestown, 
until he left the Moimtain District, and in one year did 
business in that county to the value of seven thousand 
dollars. 

From 18G.5 to 1875, his business was phenomenal and 
the amount of work he did was enormous. In a letter 
dated June 20, 1869, he says: "I rode home from 
Jamestown last night^ — reached home at 3 o'clock this 
morning." He lived about thirty miles from James- 
town, and tlie way was the very worst of mountain roads. 
He frequently rode home from Cookeville, some twenty 
luiles distant, after court adjourned in the afternoon. 
So, he was at Livingston, Jamestown, Sparta, Cooke- 
ville, Gainesboro, Gelina and Xashville — always going 
and ever full of business. 



HIDDEN TREASURE. 77 

A circLimstauee occurred iu 1870, 
"*''***" that will illustrate how completely 

he was absorbed in his practice at this 
time. During the war, he had three or four hundred 
dollars in gold, which he concealed under the parlor 
hearth. As soon as the courts were open, he plunged 
into a flood of new business, without giving the hidden 
treasure a thought. In the winter of 1867-8, his 
wife was sick and thought she would be more comfort- 
able in the parlor. She was moved in and occupied it 
during the remainder of the winter and spring. One 
day, some Ave yeai"s after the war, for the first time, 
the circumstance of the hidden gold suddenly flashed 
into his mind. He removed the hearth and found every 
piece of the money safe, though much blackened by the 
constant fire that had burned above it during his wife's 
sickness. 

On the 8th day of June, 1867, he 

*"" ^ lost his favorite son, Harvey Dillard, 

Afflictions. ,.,,.11 P 

then a bright little boy ot two short 

summers, from the bite of a venomous reptile, wliich was 
never discovered. Not long afterwards, February 30, 
1868, Jacob Dillen, his infant son, died. And within 
the year, on the 31st day of April, 1868, he suffered the 
greatest of all bereavments in the death of his beloved 
wife. Mrs. Goodpasture was a noble little woman. She 
was as bright, vivacious and intelligent, as she was kind, 
gentle and charitable; and being the best of company, 
she was a universal favorite. Many bright stories of 
her wit and social chamis are still told in the neighbor- 
hood. These were the only deaths that ever occurred 
in iiis family during his lifetime. So true it seems, 



78 JEFFERSON DILI.ARD GOODPASTURE. 

that ''misfortunes come not singly, but as if they watched 

and waited." Xo wonder he should haA-e felt "that the 

real happiness of this life is hardly worth a thought." 

After the death of his wife, his household was in a 

desolate condition. Ilis family now consisted of three 

boys. Two of them were sent ol! to school, first at 

Cookeville and then at New ]Middleton. The third was 

too young to leave home. lie employed a housekeeper, 

but his necessary absence from home, sometimes for a 

consideralde period, together with the fact already 

noted, that he never locked a door, had the effect to 

stri}) his house of nearly everything of a movable nature 

it had contained. 

On the ITtli of June, 1869, he was 
Marries Again. . , t ,• i -v- • 

married a second time, to JNannie 

Young, daughter of x\ustin C and Lucette Young, who 
lived near Sparta, Tennessee, his old friend .lessc 
Hickman performing the ceremony. 

Eev. J. E. Hickman (lS05-18Sb), 

Uncle Jesse ^^..^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^^^ most consecrated men 

Hickman. » ,i /-< i ■ i 

m the pulpit 01 the Cumberland 

Presbyterian Church. Born in the Pendleton district, 
South Carolina, he came to Tenne.'^see in his childhood, 
and was brought up to the saddler's trade. Yielding 
to an impression to preach, he Joined the Madison 
Presb3i;ery, in West Tennessee, but moved to C'herry 
Creek, in White County, in 1837, and was one oC the 
charter members of the Sparta Presbytery, in A\hich ho 
labored fifty-three years, and where he died at tiie age 
of eighty-three. 

Judge Goodpasture called in person to request that 
he officiate at his marriage. When he arrived, Uncle 



TAKES HIS BOYS TO COLLEGE. 79 

Jesse ordered his cook to "put the big pot in the little 
one," and so overwhelmed him with polite attentions, that 
he had spent the whole of the day before he found an 
opportunity to mention the subject of his visit, though 
he thought he was in a great hurry. But Uncle Jesse 
was hos]iitable to a degree little met with in these days. 
Many years later, after Judge Goodpasture's oldest son 
had entered the ministiy of the Cumberland I'resby- 
terian Church, he chanced to pass through Uncle Jesse's 
country, and called to pay his respects. The old man 
made him welcome to the best his home afforded, and 
when he was ready to take his departure, ordered his oavh 
horse and rode with him to the very uttermost limit of 
liis neighborhood; and as they passed along the road, 
from house to house, he would call out his friends: 
"This is Brother Goodpasture, one of our young preach- 
ers." "Brother Goodpasture, this is one of my elders. 
I ^^•as unwilling you should leave the neighborhood 
without making his acquaintance." And so on. 

From the time his children began to 
Takes His Boys ^^^ ^j^| enough to go to school. Judge 
To College. o o u 

Goodpasture took the liveliest inter- 
est in their education. In ISH, the two older boys, 
after attending preparatory schools at Cookeville and 
'New Middleton, were entered in the University of Ten- 
nessee, at Knoxville, where they graduated in 1875. He 
took them across the mountain from Livingston to 
Knoxville on horseback, accomplishing the journey in 
three days. After he saw them properly located, he 
ret\irued the same way, leading the two extra horses. 
It v.as his theory that a boy should Ije taught to use his 
own judgment and act on his own responsibility. He 



8o JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

advised them, moralized ou euiTent events, counseled 
them out of his ripe experience, stimulated every worthy 
ambition, but in the end made each take the responsi- 
bility of his own actions. Some of his letters are worthy 
of preservation. The one that follows was written to 
his two older sons just as they were completing the law 
course in Vanderbilt Univereity: 

"Livingston, Tenn., May 27, 18?;. 

"I?idley and Albert: 

"Dear Sons: — I received a letter from 

„. _ AVillie vcsterday. He savs his ex- 

His Sons. V J ^ 

amination [at Burritt College] begins 
on the 11th and ends on the 13th of July. If you 
remain at home that long, as I suppose you will, I want 
you to go over. I will try to go myself. 

This is Sunday, and I have nothing to do but meditate, 
and as usual, a large amount of my thoughts is upon the 
welfare of my children. The days of my youth are as 
fresh in my memory as they were twenty years ago. I re- 
member well the difficulties that were then in my way. 
I was ambitious, but I had no one to advise me upon the 
questions that most troubled me. My ambition led me 
to new fields, about which my own family had no 
knowledge or experience. I longed to be a speaker, and 
thought if I could Ije a lawyer the measure of my am- 
bition would be filled. ]3ut I never had been in a court- 
house, and I knew that my best friends regarded the idea 
as ridiculous. So, without eonsidting a human being 
on earth, at the age of twenty, I took up 'Blackstone.' 
But my greatest trouble was to stick to it. My pros- 
pects looked so gloomy, it required all the nerve I had 



LKTTKR TO HIS SONS. 8 1 

to keep me from quitting it, and taking np something 
more flattering. What little money I had, I had made 
by raising chickens and teacliing school at $12.00 per 
month, $5.00 per month of wliich I paid for a hand to 
work in my place on father's farm. To spend this hard 
earned money, distressed me. To pay $1.25 per week 
for board, looked like utter ruin. To do without good 
Sunday clothes troubled me, but to spend my money 
for them seemed equally bad. I could not sleep of 
nights. I could not study to advantage. But I felt 
determined and never doubted that at some time in the 
future I vrould have plenty and endeavored to submit 
patiently to present jjrivations, looking to that time. 
But enough on this subject. I will add, however, that 
on account of these adverse circumstances, I virtually 
lost several years of my life. 

"Now, you are differently situated. I woidd here say, 
it is a very great mistake to suppose, that in order to 
succeed a man must be surrounded with all these diffi- 
culties. It is not so. True, it is an e^ddence that a 
man possesses some of the elements of greatness to suc- 
ceed at all under such circmnstances; but, on the other 
hand, to be aljle to weigh, appreciate and utilize the 
advantages tbat education and proj^erty give, is also 
evidence of greatness. Tbere is one thing certain, no 
man, I care not what his native intellect is, can reach tlie 
very highest type of greatness without a thorough edu- 
cation. The true metal may be there, but it is the polish 
that glitters and charms the world. But there is one 
thing every young man should learn, namely, that it 
takes time to accomplish any great thing; therefore he 
shoidd be patient. It is better that he should grow 
6 



82 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

slowly; let him build a firai foundation, and as he rises 
he can feel and know that it is substantial. It were 
better if he could keep a little aliead of his reputation; 
then there is no danger of a fall. 

"You should start out detennined at any cost to un- 
derstand thoroughly everything you undertake, and 
never think of stopping short of the first ranks of your 
profession. You may expect to spend several years of 
hard labor, without much return. You will often be 
disheartened, I care not how great a philosopher you are; 
you can't help it. You vn.l\ think fees come in slowly, 
but you must remember that the closest observer cannot 
see the young tree grow, yet we know that in a few years 
it grows from a small bush to a large tree. So it is with 
the professional man. 

"1 would assure you of this, that there is not a lawyer 
in the State who has qualified himself properly, and 
]jeen an honest, upright, sober, industnous man who 
has not, sooner or later, succeeded. Every man who 
deserves success, succeeds. It has always been so and 
always will be so. The great difficulty is in doing what 
one knows to be right; it requires more determination, 
I'rmness and courage than most men have. Yet, it is 
within the power of any young man, with strong, dis- 
criminating intellect and good education; fimi, resolute, 
unshaken morals and strict integrity; fair power of en- 
durance and a reasonable amount of patience; never 
flagging industry, and an exalted ambition, to reach any 
point of eminence open to the profession. And after 
all, it takes but little more labor than to plod along in 
the crowded middle or lower ranks. Besides, the pleas- 
ure is much greater. 



LETTER TO HIS SONS. 83 

''Xow, I know as well as I know anj'tliing that does 
not admit of mathematical demonstration^ that if yon 
and Willie shonld all keep j^onr health and follow strictly 
through life the advice I am going to give you, you can 
stand at the very head of the bar in the State. I do not 
pretend to give Retails. 

"1. Be Christian gentlemen. 

''2. In everything you do in life, let the first inquiry 
be, is it right? 

"3. j\Iake as few promises as you well can, and keep 
strictly all you make. 

•'•A. Be prompt in all your undertakings. 

"5. Never go in debt. 

"6. Never go security. 

''7. Be strictly temperate. 

''8. Have a good librai-y. 

'•9. Have a good office and keep it neat and clean. 

"10. Give yoiu' whole time to your profession. 

'"11. Examine every lawsuit you have thoroughly, and 
make a hriei in every case. 

"12. Never speak on any subject you do not perfectly 
understand. 

"13. Be polite to everyone, good and bad, but associate 
with none but the very best society. 

"14. Dress well; be neat and clean. 

"15. Eead the newspapers; post yourselves on polite 
literature. 

"If you will begin at the start, there is no difficulty 
in observing all these rules, and that, Anth industry, is 
all that is required. There is one thing, however, that 
is ver}' important, and that is, to keep all of your 
accounts carefully, and never let them run too long. 



84 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

Charge reasonable fees, neither too low nor too high, 
and when you can do so have them secured. I have 
written a longer letter than I expected. Write me. 
"Affectionately, 

"J. D. GOODPASTUEE." 



CHAPTER VII. 

As the years rolled by Judge Good- 

«°^^^..° pasture found himself in a very dif- 
Nashviile. -^ 

ferent situation than previously, in 

regard to the education of liis children. As appears 
from his letters to them from time to time, he always 
felt keenly his own lack of a thorough education, and 
one of his greatest ambitions was to see that they should 
escape the privations and hardships he had endured in 
consequence thereof. All of his children old enough 
to go to school up to this time, had been boys, and 
these he had sent away to preparatory schools, and 
then to college. But he was now in possession of a 
family of young girls as well as boys, with no good 
schools in reach of him, and it Avas thought unwise and 
imprudent to send them from home. 

He had, besides, reached a period of life, when the 
conflicts and the exacting duties of a very large practice 
were growing more and more irksome. The profession 
of the law had never been to his taste. When a young 
man, it was the only road to political preferment, and 
gave at once a respectability and standing to those 
engaged in it that was offered by no other calling or 
profession. He disliked the eternal contention and 
wrangle necessarily incident to it. Xone of the incent- 
ives that had led him to begin the profession would now 
apply for its continuance. A poor, struggling boy in 
the beginning, he had long since made a competence 



86 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE- 

for himself and family. Without reputation, and 
nttei'ly unknown then, he had now gained all the 
standing- in the profession that he ever expected to 
acquire. 

Besides all this, he had long seen the advantages 
enjoyed by those who lived in better sections of the 
country, with railroad and other necessary adjuncts of 
modern life. Hence, he made up his mind to move. 
He first meditated moving to McMinnville, where he 
owned a veiw desirable little farm, and where there was 
a good female school, and then thought somewhat of go- 
ing to Gallatin. Both of these, however, were finally 
abandoned for Nashville, and so, on Tuesday, October 
21, 1879, wo find him and the family, in the early 
emigrant stvle, moving in wagons through the country 
to that place. He had been there only a short while 
before and rented an excellent house on the fasliionable 
Spruce street. 

He and the family had quite a picnic of the trij). 
and when they reached Lebanon, the children went 
almost M'ild with delight. A circus had been there a 
few days before, and the gorgeous lithographic pictures 
of the wild beasts, excited their greatest admiration. 
Besides, they had never seen a town Ijefore, and were car- 
ried away by its gradeur. Those wlio have been raised 
in a city can hardly imagine the effect upon children 
or grown people either, for that matter, who see a town 
for the first time. Nothing they have heard or read 
seems to })repare them for it. 

Thev arrived at Nashville on Sun- 
Jas. W. McHenry. -, " , i i^i • 

day aiternoon. and their caravan 

attracted much attention. Luckilv. their next door 



BUILDS A HOME. 87 

neighbor in the new home turned out to be ]\lrs. Mc- 
Henry, an old friend, who had been bom and reared in 
Overton County. She was the widow of James \Y. 
xMcHem-y, a relative of the well known Cullom family, 
and one of the best lawyers who ever lived and 
practiced in Overion County. After the war, he 
moved to Nashville to secure a wider field for his 
talents, and was rapidly entering upon a paying practice 
when he died. He was in the prime of life and would 
undoubtedly have taken the liighest position at the bar 
had he lived. He and Judge Goodpasture had been the 
best of friends, and when he moved to Nashville he 
insisted on the Judge going with him and forming a 
partnership for the practice of their profession. But 
the Judge's business at the time was thought to be too 
great to turn loose or abandon. 

Mrs. McHeni7 was very kind to them, and her offers 
of assistance were greatly appreciated. 

Judge Goodpasture had been in 
Builds a Nash vile but a few days until he had 

"°'"®* purchased a place on wliich to build 

a home. In the very beginning he displayed that ex- 
cellent judgment and foresight as regards the value 
and desirableness of city real estate that afterwards be- 
came so astonishing. He bought Just outside the cor- 
poration, on the corner of Broad and Stonewall streets, 
a fifty foot lot, on which was located a very good two 
story brick house of four rooms and two basement 
rooms. The price paid was $2,500.00. This was only 
$50.00 per foot, without taking the worth of the house 
into consideration. In less than ten years he saw the 
value of the ground alone rise to $150.00 per foot. 



88 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

He at once began to figure on building, and in the 
spring of 1880, he began the erection of a splendid 
residence, utilizing the house already on the lot, but 
bmlding to it in such a way as to give it the appearance 
of a new house throughout. His addition, when com- 
pleted, gave him a residence of fourteen rooms. He 
was his own arcliiteet, and could plan a house with 
undoubted ability. The drawing was the one thing that 
seemed to overcome him. But he vrorked at it most 
assiduously. Whatever he undertook, he did with liis 
whole soul; and so in tliis case. If one drawing did not 
suit, he v.'ould make another. Finally his wife ran 
up on some of his remarkable plans and drawings, and 
incpiired if he was laymg out a new cemetery. That 
she should mistake his house for a cemetery lot and the 
windows for graves was too much for him, so he finally 
carried his plans to the carpenter firm of Wright & Co., 
and got Jacob 0. Wright to make the picture for him. 
Wright did it to his entire satisfaction, l)ut was in- 
dicted at the next term of the Criminal Court lor 
following the the calling of an architect without a 
license. 

The Judge also, a little later, pur- 
Other Building ^j^g^^g^-^ ^ j^^ ^^ ^^^^^ g^^g^^ ^^^ 

Operations. 

which to build a law office. At that 

time a large number of such offices were on Cedar street 
West of Cherry. The lot was just opposite the ])la.ce of 
sitting of the Federal Com't and was midway between 
the Supreme Court at the capitol, and the lower courts 
on the public square. How times change! In five 
years there was not a lawyer's office on Cedar street. 
Judge Goodpasture had a passion for liuilding. 



OTHER BUILDING OPERATIONS. 89 

and all his plans were in the direction of utility and 
Ijracticality. He purchased not only the ground on 
which his oiSce was huilt, but the entire corner of 
(-'cdar and Suniiner streets. The office building was a 
combination office and dwelling, the office, however, 
having no connection with the other parts of the house. 
He was very much })lea&ed with it, and in one of his 
family letters says: "I will have my office done by the 
10th of April; it will l)e the best office in Nashville.'" 
The plans of house and office were his own. 

He also planned and built on a part of the same 
ground a very large, double tenement building. These 
were very handsome, and were rented before completed 
at $50.00 per month each. The office building, ex- 
clusive of the office of two rooms, was rented at $35.00 
})er month. 

At tliis time his business in the Mountain Circuit was 
in a very unfinished condition, and he was constantly 
forced to leave home to attend the courts in the different 
counties in which he had practiced, and especially im- 
portant to him vvere the coiu'ts of Clay, Overton and 
Fentress. These harassed him very much at times and 
almost, on a few occasions, destroyed the pleasure of 
even so agreeable a thing to him as building. Hence, 
we find him M-riting as follows on June 10, 1880: "I 
am inclined to think I made a mistake in building as 
much as I am doing; it gives me a great deal of trouble, 
besides, it is the most confining thing you ever saw. 
My dwelling is nearly done, and we are plastering the 
house adjoining my office." 

His great energy, enlivened by a naturally active mind 
and a thoronohlv confirmed habit of industrv, would 



go JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

permit of no idle hours, iiolwillititanding the change 
from the country to the city, so that witliin the year, 
before he had learned anything much of the place or its 
modes of bnsiness (and they differ widely from tlu^ 
country, and especially from the country from wluch 
he came) we find him purchasing the ground and build- 
ing a large dwelling for a home, a combination othce 
aaid dwelling and a large tenement building. And 
during that same year, he wa.s forced to attend all, or 
nearly all, the sittings of the courts in the various 
counties in which he had practiced. This had to be 
done in winter a.s well as in summer, and on horseback, 
the railroad at that time running no further than 
Lebanon, and sometimes the trips were made in dosjKr- 
ately bad weather. In December, 1879, he wrote one of 
his sons: * * * "I hope you will come up and spend 
the Christmas at home. I only regret that I cannot be 
there. 1 am trying to wind up my business as fast as 
possible. I will not attend the Jamestown court any 
more, neither will I attend the Circuit Court at Livings- 
ton, but will be compelled for sometime to attend the 
Chancery Courts in Overton and Clay." 

With what feelings he must have at- 
tended the Jamestown court for the 
last time! lie had been the first lawyer to appear in that 
ccnirt after the war; never missed a court tliere while 
he lived in the circuit, and was em])loyed in so many 
cases at one time that the Clerk and Master saitl it 
would not have been ])ossible to hold a court in his 
absence. When the writer was there in the summer of 
1875. the Clerk and blaster informed him that of the 
eiofhtv new cases entered on his docket, be had l>ecn 



THE COURTS. 91 

employed in fiftj^-five, and that these included all the 
caiTses of real importance. And it was this way from 
the beginning to the end — the confidence of the people 
of the county in his ability and integrity never wavered, 
and he had had control, practically, of one side or the 
other of every law suit of consequence in their court i> 
for a period of nearly twenty-live years. Could he 
leave such a county for the last time with other than 
the deepest emotions? The court he attended there 
the year he moved was the last time he was ever in 
Fentress County. 

He seems to have been mistaken in his statement in 
the letter above quoted, December, 18?9, that he would 
not attend the Circuit Courts at Livingston, but would 
the Chancery of Overton and Clay, for we find in one 
of his letters, under date of June 10, 1880, an account 
of a trip to the Circiut Courts of Overton and Clay; 
of the trial of a very important murder case, and of 
his gratifying success therein. In criminal cases ho 
[ire f erred to defend, his sympathies being with the un- 
fortunate. He liked the Chancery practice better, 
however, than either the law or criminal. 

These courts, and a multitude of other unsettled busi- 
ness, not only harassed him in his bmlding operations 
in Ids new home, but interfered with and prevented 
other tilings he had at heart as we may see from the 
following, quoted from same letter: "I would like ex- 
ceedingly well to pay you a visit, but it does me nearly 
as much good to get a long letter from you. Then 1 
am compelled to be gone from home so much; next 
Monday two weeks is Chancer}^ Conrt at Celina, and 
first Monday in July at Livingston. I am compelled to 



92 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

altencl both courts, so I can make you no promise as to 
the thne of my visit to Clarksville, much as I woukl Uke 
to do so." 

To the ordinar}' individual, it seems marvelous that 
a man of his age coukl or would ride on horseback, 
through a rough and mountainous circuit, to attend the 
various courts, look after closely and attentively in- 
numerable unsettled notes and accounts covering several 
counties, keep up the taxes and rents on real estate 
owned by him situated in all sorts of inaccessible })laces, 
and yet find time to plunge into large real estate deals 
in Xashville, and plan and erect a numljer of large 
Inuklings. It only shows the nervous energy and 
active mind that characterized him through life. How 
he avoided serious mistakes in his multitude of schemes, 
planned and carried through, is the remarkal)le 
feature of it all. 

"When his Cedar street building was 
Opens a eomi)leted, he fitted and opened up 

Law Office. • i^ ir t i 

a law ofhce m it. lie did uol care 

much i'or |)ractice, indeed, this was not the prinuu'y 
object in view. He desiired some place of business of 
his own and wished to get his son, W. H. Goodpasture, 
who was then a law student at the A'auderbilt Uni- 
versity, started off in the practice. This was character- 
istic of the man. AUhough still extremely active, and 
with many enterprises on hand, he had already begun 
to think much less of his own future than of those 
near and dear to him. Hence, the oft repeated ex- 
pression in bis letters of this time that ''my chief 
ambition now is to see my children succeed well iu 
life.'' 



HAS PNEUMONIA. 93 

In the spiing of 1881, he made a 

Has 

trip to his old circuit to attend the 
Pneumonia. t i • 

conrts, and on his retnrn rode all 

day tlirongh a cold, early spring rain. He slept that 
night in a room without lire and with snch large 
cracks that a damp, chilling draft passed over him. 
This gave him a most teiTihle cold, which went into a 
severe case of pneumonia immediately after his arrival 
home. A powerful chest and lungs, aided by a naturally 
strong constitution, pulled him through after a long 
and hard fight for life, but at one time he grew so dan- 
gerously ill that the absent members of the family were 
summoned. 

He was attended during tliis sickness by Dr. T. A. 
Atchison, one of the ablest physicians who ever lived 
in Nashville, and a man who carried wit and good cheer 
wherever he went. The first call he made, he asked 
to see the patient's tongue. "Very foul, very foul; but 
Judge, you need not be at all frightened by this, as it 
is nothing imcommon for a lawyer to have a foiij 
tongue." 

I'inally the patient became convalescent, and so Di., 
Atchison said to him: ''Judge, I am going to com- 
mence feeding you, and to begin with, I am going to 
have you given something so good that it will make 
your mouth water to think about it. I am going to 
ask Mrs. Goodpa.sture to fix you a nice dish of spring 
lamb and green peas." Now, if there was a single tiling 
that could or could not be eaten, that he despised and 
aboiTiinated more than any and every other thing, it 
was sheep of any age or fixed in any way. He always 
maintained that no matter how well or hungiT he 



94 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

might be, the veiy sight of mutton was enough to make 
him sick. The reader will, therefore, have to imagine 
his surprise and horror at the suggestion, and the 
doctor's at the effect it produced. 

How little can we see into the future! In this con- 
versation the doctor remarked that he would give fifty 
tliousand dollars to be as young a man as his patient. 
The doctor is still alive and active, while his patient, 
for whose promise of life he was willing to pay so 
much, ha.-? gone to his eternal rest. 



CHAPTER VIII. 

AVilh Judge Goodpasture's recovery 

Continues cauio. renewed activity, and we find 
Building. • 

hini putting up a very large and 

liandsome triple tenement on the corner of Summer 

and Cedar streets, himself planning the building and 

superintending its erection. These tenements he also 

rented at $50.00 per month each. 

He had a remarkable tact for getting acquainted with 
every one of evei-y station with whom he was tlu'own, 
and took great delight in making the humbler classes 
feel on good terms with themselves; was ever ready to 
praise their merits, sometimes extravagantly and not 
always with justice. But he did it through pure kind- 
ness of heart, and if gently accused of using a little 
'■])hirney," his reply woidd always be that it cost him 
notliing and made them feel good. 

J\y this time he knew all the carpenters, builders, 
contractoi's, ]>] umbers and everyone else engaged in the 
line of building. He would find out whence they 
originally came, who they knew and to whom they were 
of kin, and such information was never forgotten by 
liim, es}>ecially if they or their ancestry ran back to the 
old Mountain District. He had a genuine sympathy 
for the hand of toil, and this class seemed to recognize 
and appreciate it. As an illustration, he had employed 
in the building of one of his houses, a mechanic named 
Carter, who was ver}' poor. Some months aftenvards, 



96 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

Carter was taken sick, aud sent word to Judge Good- 
pasture that he would like for him to come to see him. 
He obeyed the sunmions and called at the humble home, 
not once but several times. He found the family in need 
of the absolute necessaries of life and ministered to their 
wants. Carter died. The Judge's only acquaintance 
with this man was the 1)rief employment in the build- 
ing of a house. He had never seen him before that 
time and never afterwards until he called at the sick 
bedside. Why did poor Carter send for him in his ex- 
tremity instead of to those he knew better? We do not 
know how it is, but the most ignorant can recognize 
a sympathetic soul. Even brutes can do tliis. 

He was now living in his newly built home on Broad 
street, then the most popular and growing suburb of 
the city. The street cars at that time ran to his cor- 
ner, and another line ran from there, with a good deal 
of irregularity and at long inteiwals, to the Vanderbilt. 
It then cost ten cents to ride from the city to the Van- 
derbilt and fifteen cents from Edgefield, or what is now 
J^'ast Xashville, and the cars went no further than to that 
point. 

Tennessee was now greatly agitated 
State Debt ^^^^^, j_j^^ settlement of her 8t.ate debt. 
Problem. . . ,, , , 

No question since the war had more 

thoroughly aroused the people. It was the first time 
in the histoiy of the State, where all the great politicians 
and newspapers were to be found on one side of the 
question and the people on the other. Judge Good- 
pasture always manifested an interest in politics, and 
took sides on all public questions, not extreme as a rale 
nor strictly partisan, but firm in his connctions and 



STATE DEBT PROBLEM. 97 

open in expressiug them. He was a strong ''State 
credit*'' man, and ardently for the 50-4 compromise sub- 
mitted to the vote of the people. One of the last poht^ 
ical speeches ever made by him \vas on this question, in 
Fentress County, while attending the court there, about 
the time of moving. There was a large crowd in town, 
and he pleaded earnestly and effectively with the people. 
After the election was over, it turned out that Fentress 
was one of the few middle Tennessee counties to vote 
in favor of the compromise. 

He was profoundly astonished at its defeat and greatly 
regretted it. He feared it meant repudiation of the 
entire debt. Never had there been more reason for 
astonishment. As said before, nearly every man of 
political prominence in the State, almost all the news- 
papers, and all the business, corporate and money powers 
in the large counties, towns and commercial centers 
favored it. Formerly, these elements had l)cen all- 
powerful. Hi this contest, no one seems to have hwn 
opposed to the compromise except the people, and they 
\oted it down overwhelmingly. Something in the same 
line, though not so successful, was seen applied to the 
nation, in the late liryan campaign. 

It seems certain, though he was never heard to say 
so in plain words, that he lived to see that, after all, the 
people in the main were right on this question and the 
politicians wrong. His oldest son, J. R. Goodpasture, 
a man very tenacious, and sometimes extreme in bis 
views, but always vigorous in maintaining them, had 
been elected soon after leaving college to the Legislature, 
as a strong State credit advocate. We know that he 
has come to recognize the wisdom of the people, as have 

7 



98 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

most of those who differed from them, and its compromise 
l)y the Legishvtiire at 50-3 ended it as a poHtical ques- 
tion. But it produced great acrimon}' and much ill- 
feehng while it histed. 

One of thic results v/as the shooting of Senator L. T. 
Smith, and at Senator Smith's request, an investigation 
of the charges averred against him was ordered before 
a committe of the Senate. Judge Goodpasture had al- 
ways been Senator Smith's warm personal friend. He 
had known him intimat-ely for many years, both in a 
business and social way. In the meantime, W. 11. 
Goodpasture had graduated in the lavv' school at the 
A'anderbilt, and the firm had become that of J. D. & 
V\\ 11. Goodpasture. They were employed by Senator 
Smith to represent him before the Senate committee. 
Charges against Senator BaiTett and Speaker j\Iorgan 
Avere at the same time investigated. A number of other 
attorneys vv'ere employed, both to prosecute and defend, 
among them Gen. Luke Wright, of Memphis. The in- 
vestigation dragged through many weary weeks, the 
whole being iiublished by order of the Legislature, mak- 
ing a book of seven hundred pages. 

Al)out this time the firm enjoyed a 

His Law peculiar run of practice. As said 

Practice. 

before, their oftice was located just 

opposite the Federal Court, v^■hich then sat in the Kirk- 
maji building, that is now occupied by the Conservatory 
of Music. Almost all the time of the court was taken 
up with small offences against the internal revenue laws. 
Xow, if the "moonsliiner" and "wildcatter" flourished 
at any one place beyond all others, it was in the Judge's 
old circuit. And he kncvr them all and by their given 



HIS LAW PRACTICE. 99 

names, who their parents were, to whom they were re- 
lated and to whom married. His ability to gather and 
j'enieniber family history, seems to have been natiu'al 
and not acquired. 'JMiey all flocked to him as one man 
in their petty trovdjles. and made the office their general 
rendezvous. He enjoyed it immensely — heard with 
patience the story of their troubles, and used his best 
endeavor to get them ott' as lightly as possible. From 
those able to \m\, a small fee was collected, but none 
were refuse<l because of their poverty. 

At this time the fii'm also began to get a large but 
not a very paying }>ractice in the (Supreme Court. A 
Court of Referees had been established by the Legisla- 
ture for the relief of the overcrowded docket of the 
Supreme Court. Many of the lawyers from the Moun- 
tain Circuit could not attend tliis coiu't on account of 
conflicts with their own inferior courts, and of those 
who did, many could not be there to file exce})tions to 
the findings of said court so as to secure a hearing before 
the Supreme Court. For somewhat similar reasons, 
many could not attend the sittings of the Supreme 
(.*ourt. Indeed, some of the attorneys up there, on 
account of the great inconvenience, expense and time 
required, never followed their causes beyond the lower 
com-ts. Judge W. W. (Goodpasture, of Livingston, who 
enjoyed a large and lucrative practice, never, at any 
time, attended its sittings. Hence, the finn was em- 
ployed by attorneys all over the Mountain Circuit, who 
could not themselves be present, to look after their 
several cases. 

But the duties of the office were never able to divorce 
his mind from business. Fven at the time when en- 



lOO JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

joying the largest practice of any man in liis part of tiie 
State, he took time to give the maturest thought and 
most carefnl attention to mattei-s of husiness. Hence, 
lie watched the markets, attended the auction sah's of 
real estate, looked at advertised property in all jtarts of 
the city and seemed to grasp relative values l)y in- 
tuition. 

He hegan ahout this time the pnr- 
Real Estate ^.j^.^^^ ^^^ outlving vacant lots, and 
Purchases. ,> , • " i i 

most ol Ins early purchases were m 

the new suburh of West End. A remarkable thing 
is. that wliile he left in liis estate a large amount 
of unimproved I'eal estate, which after the depression 
conld not. ])erha])s, have heen sold at a profit, still, he 
never sold a piece of real estate at a loss in Nashville, 
and his dealings extended over many years. He was 
<iuick to uuike up his mind on a trade and never higgled 
over small matters. He seemed to know in a minute 
what he was willing to give, hut after the trade was once 
consunnnated. he allowed himself to see only the good 
points in it. On one occasion he was walking along the 
street, and came upon two well known gentlemen a.nd 
friends disputing over an extra lot on Ik'lmont street, 
which they had gotten with others in a deal. Neither 
wanted the lot. Judge Goodpasture asked the price and 
exact location and on being told, said that he would 
take it if it would be an accommodation to them. Ijoth 
said it would be a very great one, and the trade Avas 
made. It was only three or four years until the lot rose 
not less thaji three hundred per cent, in value, and was 
one of the best bargains he ever made. 

At this time, by his love of enterprise, and the almost 



CHARACTERISTIC ANECDOTES. lOI 

universal cxain})le of those with whom he associated, 
he speculated to some extent in stocks in Xew York and 
grain in Hiicago. But this he soon abandoned, on the 
ground that its rise or fall was largely in the power of 
the speculators, wholly outside of his control and 
afforded no room for the exercise of judgment. 

lie ne^■er had any secrets, and if told 
Characteristic ^^^^^^ ^,^^^ ^^.^^^ ^^.j^^ ^^j^^ -^ generallv 
Anecdotes. "" 

lived to regret it. Not that he in- 
tended telling it, or was indilTerent on the subject, but 
they just came out in utter thoughtlessness, and the 
more important they \\cre the more certain they were to 
unexpectedly appear. Urs. John and AlvJs liyan, sons 
of H. K. Eyaii and nephews of Judge Goodpasture, were 
boarding with him and attending the dental and medi- 
cal departments, respectively, of the Ifniversity of Ten- 
nessee. They were at the otfice one noonday, and told 
liim in great confidence and as a matter about which 
the utmost secrecy must be maintained, that the boys 
up at the dissecting rooms had just gotten in a Chinese 
subject, and that they had been especially charged ijy 
their demonstrator to mention the matter to no one. 
All}' one who knows the peculiarities of tiiis race of 
people and their supei-stitions, will readily appreciate 
the importance of the demonsti'ator's injunction. That 
night all sat down to supper. The table was filled b\ 
eight or ten A'anderbilt literary students, who were 
l)oarding at the house at the time. At one period of 
the meal, every one seemed to be out of anything to say 
and silence reigned from end to end of the long table. 
]3ut it was soon broken by Judge Goodpasture, who re- 
nuirked, 'T understand they are cutting up a Chinaman 



I02 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

out here at the iiiedieal school"" — and then after a .<hort 
pause — "but I l)e]ievc, IJyan, you said to say nothing 
about it."' Poor Ryan was utterly stupitied and over- 
come by the announcement. The great secret had not. 
only been divulged to a large crowd, but the very man 
who told it was named. He did not seem to think he 
had done anything very extraordinary, but afterwards 
remarked that "he would not have told it if he had 
thought at the time about Ryan ol)jeeting."' It came 
out as purely and naturally as a clear spring from its 
source. 

He had the hapjiy faculty of getting a bit of amuse- 
ment and entertainment from even the humblest callers 
on occasions. One long hot summer afternoon he was 
sitting in the office, when a very oi'dinary looking negro 
man entered, with tlie announcement that he was "a 
glass man,"" aiul was k)oking for a jol). Tlie -ludge 
looked up at him in apparently the gi-eatest astonish- 
nu'nt. "A glass nuin, a glass man you say yoti are. 
my good friend, \\hy, if you hadn't told me I would 
never have sus})ected your being so vvonderfitlly con- 
structed and of such remarkable looking glass." The 
darkey then explained that be only meant that he put 
in glass, and would like to do some work of the kind 
for him. The Judge said that he was exceedingly sorry 
that he had no work of the sort to l)e done, becaitse he 
knew the applicant was a good man. but that if ho did 
have any the a])plicant, of all other men in Nashville, 
would be the very one he would |)ick to do it. The 
negro looked at him in great seriousness and renuirked, 
^'You are the cleverest talkin' white num that ever I 
seed." 



CHARACTERISTIC ANECDOTES. I03 

His sport with such characters v,'a.s ahvays good 
humored and was never allowed to become offensive. 
But he did not confine his attempts at wit to tiie ignor- 
ant and lowly, but to any friend he might meet, and 
sometimes they would prove quite a boomerange. Col. 
John H. Savage was a member of the Legislature, and 
the enterprising artist of the American had made and 
pid)lished in his paper a picture of the Colonel, sketched 
from life. Colonel Savage is a small man with an 
uncommonly large nose and small eyes. To this he 
added a peculiarity of dress, and wore an old cape over- 
coat for a great number of years, long after they had 
ceased to be fashionaljle. The artist had greatly exagger- 
ated all these peculiar points but at the same time every 
one could at once recognize it, though the picture was 
an absolute scarecrow. 

Judge Goodpasture met Colonel Savage the morning 
the picture appeared, coming down Cherry street, and 
remarked to his companion that he intended to get off 
a little wit on Savage. Said he, "Colonel, I see they 
have your picture in this morning's paper, and I'll tell 
you, I don't think I ever saw a better picture of a man 
in my life — it is a speaking likeness." "Ye^," said 
the Colonel, "that's the art of these fellows — they can 
draw the picture of a snake and make it look like a man. 
Why, sir, these fellows could draw^ the picture of a jack- 
ass and still you would know it was J. D. Goodpasture." 

Thus was his time occupied for the first five or six 
years after his removal to Xashville— winding up his 
multifarious business in the different counties in the 
ilountain Circuit, practicing law in a way, buying and 
selling real estate and building houses. He had been 



I04 JEFFERSON DILI.ARD GOODPASTURE. 

nmcli ini.ssed- in the section from wliieli lie had removed. 
Tlie confidence of tlie bar and people in tlie soundness of 
bis opinions seems to have been nnlimited. They had 
grown to rel}' npon him, and to snch an extent that 
long after removal his advice was mnch songht. As an 
instance, nnder date of October 17, 1883, one of the 
leading attorneys in that section writes him: "'Here- 
with i send yon an exact copy of a will. AVould yon be 
kind enough to give me your opinion of E. J.'s title. 
■•= =•• * Has she the complete ])ower of disposing of it? 
I make this request to you from my own desire as well 
as at the instance of others." 

He had gained this confidence l)y largely disregarding 
teclinicalities, and looking to the very right of every 
cause. 



CHAPTER IX. 

Judge Goudpasture had never been 
Determines to ^ . i . i j- ^ 

, X , , a iMan to travel or to be from home 

Import Jacks. 

except for the necessary requirements 
of business. But the course of events now directed his 
tlioughts in a channel, and to a section of the world, 
to which, in his Inisy life, lie had never given more 
than a passing thought. In the summer of 1883. Ms 
son, W. H. Goodpasture, made a pleasure trip to the 
various countries of Europe. In the spring of 1881, he 
made an importation of Holstein-Friessian cattle on 
account of A. V. & "\V. H. Goodpasture. The business 
began to interest him, and he came near forming a 
company to import on a large scale, and did go so far as 
to send to his son in Holland an order for a number of 
head. In the summer of 1885, the same firm made a 
second importation. During this time he had studied 
over the importation question a good deal, and came to 
the conclusion that after all, cattle were not the things 
to import, but that jacks were; that mules did not 
depend upon fancy for their price; that they were a 
necessity to a large section of the country, and as staple 
as sugar and coffee, and that this would make jacks so. 
Xo jacks had been imported to Tennessee, since the in- 
troduction of the great freight steamers. Those pre- 
viously imported were l)rought in sailing vessels, mak- 



Io6 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

ing long and tedious journeys, that were trying in tiie 
extreme to the stock. 

"When an idea or enterprise once took a firm hold of 
him, he was all impatience until he carried it into effect. 
So that during his son's absence in 1885, he was writing 
letters to our minister and various consular representa- 
tives in Spain, and to jack men in the United States, 
seeking information wherever obtainable. He con- 
fessed that he could scarcely tell a jack from a hand- 
saw, but did not allow this to dampen his ardor or 
abate his enthusiasm. When, therefore, W. H. Good- 
pasture landed with his cattle in quarantine at Garfield, 
New Jersey, he began to receive numerous letters on the 
subject, all looking to an early trip to Spain, and ex- 
pressing great confidence in the success of such an en- 
terprise. The quarantine of cattle brought from foreign 
counti-ies is ninety days from date of sailing, which 
nuikes it something like two and one half months in 
M'hicli they are to be kept at the quarantine station, the 
}iassage across consuming something like two weeks. 

After the jack imporiation had been determined 
upon, this delay of his son (whom he wished to accom- 
l)any him aln-oad) in quarantine, looked like a long time, 
and he writes to know if an arrangement could not 
l)e made for some one else to take charge of the cattle, 
so that he could leave at once for Spain. Other letters 
followed this still more strongly urging that the trip be 
made at once. The difficulties in the way of this were 
})<)inted out, and he finally a,gi'eed to wait until the 
cattle should be released from quarantine and brought 
home, l)ut the trip to be made immediately there- 
after. 



DETERMINES TO IMPORT JACKS. 107 

From Ill's various letters to Spain and elsewhert', lie 
had received little or no information of value. Our 
minister and consuls in Spain knew nothing personally 
of jacks, and what information the}' received from 
others over there generally proved inaccurate and mis- 
leading, lie had little better success in the replies to 
letters written in his own country. l-"e\N- knew anything 
of the business. A gentleman, living in the far North- 
west, who had once impoi'led tliree or four, writes: 
■'The information that 1 have obtained about Spanish 
jacks 'i as gotten by the expenditure of mnch time, 
labor and money, and 1 do not care to make a gift of it 
to others." 

In the meantime, he bad taken in as a partner, Capt. 
H. 11. Hill, an expei-ienced jack man, a most excellent 
salesman and a good man. Tbe connection was a 
fortunate one. 

By the last of Decendjcr, 188-"), everything wa.s ready 
for ulie start. His son liJid arranged while in qna.rantine 
to get free })asscs on the Monarch line, per S. S. Persian 
Monarch, running from Xew York to London, and 
they winv to leave home so as to reach New York by the 
date of her sailing. They had been fortunate in stir- 
ing up such good company to go with them as Mr. W. 
1). Palmer and Mr. L. R. Campbell, both companions 
agreeable j)ar excellence and especial friends. All were 
friends and intimates of Mr. E. F. Jackson. There was 
no better man to have along, and he wanted to go as 
badly as any one in the crowd, but coidd not make np 
his mind on the subject. He and the writer had gone 
abroad together in 1883, and Jackson had experienced 
something of this same troul)le then. It looked at one 



Io8 JEFFERSON DILLAKD GOODPASTURE. 

time like his indecision niiyht prevent the other two 
from going. 

Judge Goodpasture and son were to 

Leaves For ^,^, ^^ AYashini^ton Citv. and 

New York. c - ^ t ' . n " i 

there spend a couple ot days, and 

had to 1)0 in Xew York for a few days, also, before 
sailing, to attend to necessary business. The boys were 
To go to jSTew York direct, and, therefore, on December 
19, 1885, the Judge and son left without them. They 
took John Terry, colored, along. John had been i)orler 
to the State Senate, and at the time of leaving he 
was i)rivate ]un"ter to the Governor. He did not resign, 
but secured i\ good man, Alfred Hart, to take his place, 
ten)porarily. during his absence observing the effete 
monarchies of the old world. He got Alfred from 
Bush's brick yard, who, it soon turned out, liked 
his new job a good deal better than that of carrying 
Ijrick. He made himself so useful and polite that he 
has held the place ever since. John got to be a great 
man l)y his travels, but was never able again to become 
a public servant, to be the envy of the balance of his 
race. 

They arrived in AVashington City early one morning, 
and had no trouble in finding a good hotel for them- 
selves but experienced great difficulty in getting (piar- 
ters for John; for while Washington is more east than 
south, their people are still quite as particular in their 
treatment of the negro as they are in the Southern cities. 
They allow no mixing in pulilic I'estaurants and hotels. 

Congress was in session. The Judge vrent up to the 
capitol about the hour of meeting, 13 o'clock m., and 
met a number of the Tennessee Conoressmen and 



LEAVES FOR NEW YORK. 109 

I'riends. Particularly agreeable was Judge Houk, of 
Knoxville. Judge Goodpasture had ])ractited law be- 
fore him, and had known him for a numl)er of yeai-s. 
All, however, were kind, aud his two senators gave him 
letters of introduction abroad, the letter of General Jiate 
being especially felicitous and complimentary. General 
l)ate was quite well acquainted with the American min- 
ister at Madrid, Hon. J. L. M. Curry, of Virginia, who, 
as manager of the Peabody Fund, had been frequently 
in ISTashville, though the Judge had never met him. 
He also called at the State Department to get passports. 
Ex-Governor James D. Porter, of Tennessee, was then 
assistant Secretary of State, under the Hon. Thos. F. 
Ijayard. Here was another old friend. Judge Good- 
])usture was one of the original supporters of Mr. Porter 
in his candidacy for the governorship, and was a dele- 
gate to the State Convention that nominated him, and 
on calling at the department was received with great 
cordiality. 

Tlie Judge and party took the train that evening for 
Xew York City. The coacli wa.^^ full, and all were 
strangei^s to them. The only familiar looking object on 
the train was a negro, v.ith whom they soon got into 
conversation. It proved to be Blanche K. Bruce, Eegister 
of the Treasury, and formerly United States Senator 
from Mississippi. He impressed them as being a big, 
good looking mulatto of great vanity and not ovei-- 
much sense. He inquired of them where they expected 
to stop in New York, saying that he always stopped at 
the Floffman House, which they would find to be a 
very decent place, if they should try it. If men were 
elected or appointed to office on account of superior in- 



no JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

telligence or fitness, Bnioe would never have gotten out 
of his native connty. As it was, lie had wliat was, in 
many respec-ts, one of the most desirahle offices in the 
gift of the I*resident. 

They stopped at the Continental Hotel and received 
the next morning the following gratifying line from 
Palmer: "I decided dtflnitely this moniing to go. 
AVent down town and found Lem [C'amphellJ packiiig 
up, hut Jack would not say much about going. J^em is 
cussing him for not deciding. He thought, })erhaps, 
tliat 1 would drop out and that might break up the 
])arty, but now that 1 have assured him that I will go, 
and Lem is making preparations, Jack has to toe the 
mark or back out, and he is in hl« usual undecided con- 
dition, lie is obliged to decide "Vt-morrow, however, 
as we got a Herald last night and saw the steamer was to 
sail at eight a.m. Thui-sday. * * '•' Lem and 1 have 
decided to go without Jack if he docs not come to a 
conclusion."" 

'J'he steamer on which they were to sail had not yet 
arrived in port from her voyage from London to New 
York, though some days past due. The weather on the 
Atlantic had been severe and souie uneasiness was felt 
fur her. In the meantime, Palmer and (Aimpbell had 
arrived for the trip. A day or two later the Porsiaii 
]\lonarch came in. badly disabled, witli twelve feet of 
water in her hold, notwithstanding the fact that her 
steam pump had been kept constantly going. Some of 
her crew had been lost. She had to lay up for repairs 
and the party had to look elsewhere for pa.ssage. This 
would, they found, keep them in New York some days 
longer, and this fact was telegraphed Jackson, at 



LEAVES FOR NEW YORK. Ill 

Xashville, so that he could still go with them, if 
he would hurrv up and come to a decision on the 
qiiestion. 

They spent the time very agreeably in Xevv York. 
They met several friends they had known in Nash- 
ville. Palmer, Campbell and the writer had been 
members of the Phi Delta, Theta fraternity at college, 
and the almnni chapter of New York City invited 
the paj-ty to make headquarters at their rooms. These 
were centrally located, and they constantly availed 
themselves of the invitation, making many veiy agree- 
able acquaintances. 

It was on the eve of the Cluistmas holidays, and the 
crowds in the neighborhood of the big down town 
stores were beyond anything they had ever seen. For 
blocks the streets were one sohd mass of moving 
humanity, the foot passengers filling, not alone the 
pavements, but the streets as well. Judge Goodpasture 
remarked that Governor Hawkins was right when he 
said there were "a heap of people in New York." On 
Chiistmas day the streets were as completely deserted 
as a coimtr}^ village on Sunday. Ever}' one seemed to 
be at home for the day. 

They saw the big Christmas markets with all sorts of 
game, the Judge being greatly astonished at the enor- 
mous size of the sheep and turkeys. They went to 
Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, and saw the monu- 
ments to Tweed and others. The Judge was aftcnvards 
at Vigo, Spain, where the great Boss was captured. 
All of them admired that wonderful piece of engineer- 
ing, the Brooklyn Bridge. They went out Fifth 
Avenue, and saw the palatial homes of Stewart, Vander- 



112 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

l)ilt. and others. Went to the top of the Eqiulal)le 
Building and viewed the city from that elevated point; 
ate their dinner on the highest floor of the Mills Ikiild- 
ing; visited the stock and produce exchange, Trinity 
Church and its old graves; read the Xashville ])apers in 
the reading room of the Fifth Avenue Hotel, and 
sometimes picked their teeth there; saw Jim Stokes' 
celebrated bar at the Hoffman House; ■\\'ent to the thea- 
ters and saw, among others. Miss Fay Templeton, a 
Southern girl; in fact, with plenty of time on their hands 
and nothing else to do, they tried to see ever^-thing 
worth seeing in the great metropolis. 

A very pleasant incident occurred 
Sam Bell Maxey. t ■ " .-, ■ , mi, t i 

during their stay. the Judge saw 

in tlie papers that Senator Sam Bell Maxey, of Texas, 
was stop])ing at the I'ifth Avenue. He had known 
]iim intimately as a young man, the two being raised 
some twenty-five or thirty miles apart, but were thrown 
much in each others society. They had not seen each 
other since before the war. The Judge called and was 
received by the Senator in his bed room. He got up, 
grasped the Judge's liand with great cordiality and 
said, "Why, Dillard. liow are you?" "Well," said the 
Judge, "I can still call you Sam Bell, can't I?" 

Senator Maxey gave him a speech he had recently 
delivered, and wliich he asked him to read, as he was 
a lawyer. He made a remark in this connection that 
was quite as true as it was complimentary to the South. 
He said that he had seldom written a speech, the habit 
being in his section, and all over the South, to speak 
without such preparation, and hence, he said, that in 
extempore and running debate, the speakers from the 



SAM BF.LL MAXEY. II3 

Xorth and East were far outcla!>secl l>y thopo from the 
South. 

Only a few years after this, General Maxey died, and 
Judge Goodpasture wrote up for the local press the fol- 
lowing little sketch of him: 

"lion. Sam Bell ]\Iaxey, whose death is announced in 
the press, was well known to a section of Tennessee 
when a young man. The press dispatch states that he 
WRS horn in Todd County, Kentucky. I do not know 
how this is, hut liis youth and young manhood were 
spent at Albany, Ky., a small village and county seat, 
five miles across the Kentucky line from Overton 
C^ounty, Tennessee, novr Pickett County. His father, 
Kice Maxey, Avas clerk of some of the courts at Albany. 
At that time, in Kentucky, the same man was allowed 
to be clerk of more than one court. 

''I was not acquainted with the subject of this sketch 
until after his graduation from AVest Point. On his 
return from the war with Mexico, Avhere he sened with 
credit, he was made a deputy under his father, and both 
practiced law at Li"sangston, Tenn., where I was t]ien 
living. His mother was a Bell, a well known and dis- 
tinguished family in that part of the State, a connection 
of which he was always proud, and a name which he 
always used. He was a dressy man, very much so for 
that day and section, and was looked upon by the people 
as something of an aristocrat. But he was always polite, 
affable, courtly and dignified, and among those \\-ith 
whom he was acquainted and with whom he associated, 
he was well liked and popular. His older brother, 
(there were only two of the boys) was also a graduate of 
West Point, and also went out at the first call of his 



114 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

comitiy to seek glory on the Lloody fields of Mexico. 
But, like many others who went out from that section, 
he never returned. I am not certain whether he was 
killed or died from the exposures incident to army life. 
He was said to have been a man of great talent and most 
promising future. 

"■'I have most excellent reasons for remembering Gen- 
eral Maxey perfectly. As young men, we not only prac- 
ticed at the same bar, Ijut were livals for the hand of the 
same fair one, and finally when I won and went to get 
my license, he, as deputy clerk, issued it to me, and 
generously refused the fee which the law allowed him 
for the service. 

"Sam Bell's father, Hon. Eice J\Iaxey, was a pious and 
popular man— a Baptist — well educated, well to do, and 
a leading man in his section. He was very proud of his 
boys and his solicitude for their success was intense and 
continuous. The last time I saw General Maxey was 
in the winter of 1886. I happened to be in New York, 
and learned that he was stopping at the Fifth Avenue 
Hotel. I had not seen liim since the war, but on my 
approach he instantly recognized me and put me fully 
at ease by calling me by my given name. Fully thirty 
years had elapsed since we had met, and he showed the 
politician's talent for recollecting fac-es. 

"General Maxey has numerous relatives in Tennessee. 
Yarney AndreA\s, a large farmer and prominent citizen 
of Clay Gounty, married a sister of Rice Maxey, the 
(ileneral's father. Mr. Andrews lived all his life in Clay 
and left a considerable family. A brother of Eice 
jMaxey lived just across the Clay County line in Ken- 
tucky, but his cliildren all moved into Tennessee and 



SAM BELL MAXEV. 1 15 

raipod families, wlio slill live there. One of tiie ehildreii 
of this l)rotl!er was John ]^. ilaxey, who became a very 
])ron\inent man, and was for a long time Chairman of 
the County Court of Clay County. He is still living. 
Another son lives in Celina, \\'liere he keeps the village 
hotel. There arc many others scattered about over that 
section of the State, and. so far as I know them, tliey 
are all good people. 

"General Maxey was married in Overton County, Ten- 
nessee, to a Miss Denton, a relative of the Hon. H. Den- 
ton, of Cookeville. Tcnn. There was no issue as a result 
of this union, and when 1 juet General Maxey in Xew 
York he was acconii)anied by a yonng man whom he had 
adopted and raised, and whom he had named after 
himself, Sam Bell Maxey. 

"Albany, the former home of the Maxeys, is a small 
village and county seat. But among the few young 
men practicing at her bar when Sam Bell was a young 
man. and who also practiced in all the courts of Over- 
ton County, a number afterwards became famous. 
As young men together, there was Sam Bell Maxey, 
afterwards United States Senator from Texas; Thomas 
Bramlett, afterwards Governor of Kentucky, and a 
distinguished lawyer of Louisville, where he settled 
after the expiration of his gubernatorial term. And 
there was Preston Leslie, who became a well known 
Circuit Judge, Governor of Kentucky, Territorial Gov- 
enioi- by a]ipointment of Cleveland, and who, I tliinlc, 
has la.tely settled in the West. He is the uncle of 
Hon. Benton MclMillin. Xot as a practicing lawyer, but 
as a young man with the others, was William Bramlett. 
He married in Overton Countv, a daughter of Rev. John 



Il6 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

L. IJillard, went to Texas, studied law. became dis- 
tinguished, and for a long time occupied a position on 
the bencli. He Avas a younger brother of the Governor, 
and was educated in Overton Count_y. A remarkable 
thing is, that all these men who l)ecame so distinguished, 
were members of the Baptist Church." 



CMAPJ'ER X. 

Tho i)art3' were greatly rejoiced one 

Leaves for nioming to see Jack make his appear- 

iverpoo . ^^^^^^^ jj^ j^^^ ^^ ^^^^ made up his 

iinnd to go, and had gotten to Xew York in plenty of 
time, thinking the steamer would sail a day earlier than 
it did. They went around and ]:)ought tickets for the 
Alaska, an ocean greyhound, and one of the fleetest 
steamers developed up to that time. For some years 
she held the record for quickest passage. Their money 
matters were arranged, the party were all in good 
health and fine spirits, and were at last ready to embark 
upon the boxmdless deep. It was to be the first trip 
of all the party except t\NO, and they had the liveliest 
anticipations of the voyage and the trip — what it would 
look like to get out of sight of land, who would he sea- 
sick ajid who would escape. All agreed that Jackson 
would be the iirst to succumb, as he had generally 
managed to be the nnluckiest in every party of whicli he 
liad been a member. 

The voyage to Liverpool was without any especial 
features. They embai'ked at 11 o'clock, a.m., December 
2ii, 188.3, having sjient. altogether, eight days in New 
York City. 

The cuisine of the steamer wa.s first-class, and the 
attendance excellent. They enjoyed, for the first time, 
melons for breakfast in mid winter, and many other 
much appreciated delicacies. Sure enough Jack was 



Il8 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

sea-t«ick riglit away. CampljoU followed hard in his wako, 
as did Palmer also. .Iu(!l;o (iood)iasture did not exactly 
_H'et sea-sick. l)Ut the rollin<^- aiul [)itcl!iii>i- of the vessel. 
with the rattling of chains, the splash of the big waves. 
I'olling over the deck, and the constant cracking and 
so'ceching of timbers, produced the most fajicitiil and 
sometimes surprising dreams. They were, hesides, ([iiite 
as unpleasant as they wejv unreal. !li' had always been 
a great smoker, and had cari'ied with him his old 
hickoiT pipe with cane stem and his fa\(>rite braud. 
Knights of J^abor, snu>king tobacco. J)Ut smoke did nol 
taste right to him. While he did not get sea-sick, lie 
came closer to it than was really comfortahle. 

About the second night out. the weather became 
I'ather rough, and the big waves Ijegan to sweep the 
deck. The \\ater woidd strike the front part of the 
vessel and come rolling down the deck in a torrent, and 
with a good deal of noise. From the cabins, this noise 
of moving water was hard to locate. The Judge was 
awakened from a light slumber and heard it for the 
iirst time. He occupied a lower berth. Instantly, he 
was all attention. He first put his head out and lis- 
tened. Then he called to his companion in the u]j]jer 
berth and desired to know if he could hear that water. 
Of course he could. "Well." said the Judge, "T woiud 
give a good deal to know just exactly where that 
water is." 

The ])a.^sage, being iji midwinter, was rougli and 
windy throughout. A very fast vessel rocks and ])itehes 
much worse than a slow one, and does not change her 
course for any sort of weather. Those "who wish to gain 
two or tliree days in time of pa.ssage. j)ay very dearly 



FOREIGN NEWSPAPERS. IIQ 

for it, the slow boats being a great deal the more com- 
fortable. On this trip for some days in succeseion, pas- 
sensfers could only walk from their state rooms to tiie 
dining saloon by holding to a rope, stretched along the 
passage way for the purpose; could not go out on deck 
for a bit of fresh air, as the huge waves were continually 
sweeping it; and would often be thrown froju their seals 
to the floor in the smoking room. Many very comical 
and a few painful scenes of tliis sort were enacted. At 
the dining table, all of the dishes including one's own 
plate, had to be kept in bars, and liquids like soup, 
coffee, etc., had to be held in the hand, if not, it would 
soon be found in one's lap instead of on the table. 
The very greatest mistake made by travelers in general 
is to cross on a very fast ocean steamer. 

But, finally, there was sighted the 
Foreign much looked for land on the other 

side, and the boat was soon discharg- 
ing her mail at Queenstown. Some enterprising boys 
rowed over from the town with papers for sale. Every 
one of course was eager and hungry for the nev/s, and 
there was a great scramble to get them at double and 
even treble tlie ordinaiT price. The boys quickly sold 
out and as quickly left the boat. They sold the pas- 
sengers as well as the papers. Xot a paper was under 
a week old. It was really no great loss, however, as 
Irish and English papers have the least possil)le news 
in them, and generally nothing to interest an American. 
There are no real newspapers published outside of 
America. The make up of a London daily is one 
of the most amazing things to the American met with 
abroad. The great papers like the Times, Standard 



I20 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

and others, [iive full reports of the trials in the Bow 
street poHee eourts, including the age. residence and 
()t(n])alion of the accnsed, the name of ofiticer making the 
arrest, and where and under what circumstances made, 
all of the riiaterial evidence in the case, the remarks of 
tlie magistrate and of the attorneys as well. Then there 
is the big editorial page, with articles on the driest of 
dry stibjects, and Y\'ritten in the ponderotis Johnsonian 
st}le. Then a contributor's ]>age, filled with articles 
by our old friends, "constant reader" and "vox populi." 
Til en a page of what pa.'ises for news — a few cables 
from Rentgers on the continent, all short and unsatis- 
factory, a few more from the English colonies, maybe 
something from South America, and an occasional line 
fj-om the United States. Of course any news of the 
Khglish Court is recorded. Then the balance is ad- 
vertisements. Xo Sunday papers, no illustrations, no 
tiig issues, no enterprise, no interest. An ordinary 
American paper has more news in one issue, than any 
]>aper in Europe has in a week, and a New York daily 
will have more telegraphic matter in a single numher 
tlian a big London paper will contain in a month. 

As the party steamed up the smooth and placid waters 
of the ZvEercy toward Liverpool, sea-sickness having 
taken wings, they all busied themselves writing home to 
friends, so that they might devote their entire time to 
sigiit seeing, oil landing. All were in fine fettle except 
Jack. He had one day felt so sea-sick that he thought 
himself obliged to have fresh air. So he ventitred oat 
on deck. The waves had been rolling over it, and it 
was conscfiuently wet and slippery. Jack was standing 
near an overluuiii'ina" life-boat. He is (luite a tall. 



THE STOP IN LIVERPOOL. 121 

slender man with very elongated linihs. Suddenly, tlie 

ship gave a big roll. Jack's head went down and his feet 

and legs went up, and went sufficiently high to strike 

the bottom of the life-boat with a good deal of force. 

This greatly impeded his locomotion, intensified by the 

fact that he had left home with a pair of new shoes. 

])nt they were soon at the docks of 

^ °^ T.iverpool, and were taken in charge 
in LiverpooL . 

by the custom ofhcers, who exannned 

their baggage, (luggage is the word used over there) for 
tire-arms and spirits. They went direct to the Xoi'tb- 
western Hotel, a most excellent hostelry, made so, 
largely, by its enormous American custom. Campbell 
registered them, and put John down as Hon. John 
Terry, the result of which was, that he got altogether 
the best room of any man in the party. 

There are very few elevators in Europe, but the 
American travel through Liverpool is so great that this 
hotel has been forced to build one. In l]ngland, they 
are called lifts. When the party had gone np to their 
jiroper floor, and were passing through the long hall- 
ways, they saw on every corner "To the Lift." "By the 
way, gentlemen," said the Judge, "had you discovered 
in what a peculiar way these people over here spell left?"' 
And when told of his error, he said it sounded more 
like left than it did like elevator anyway. 

John got into some tronble here. That afternoon, 
when he had been gone for a short time to get his 
supper at a restanrant, he returned to the hotel m a good 
deal of excitement, saying that so many people crowded 
around him, he was afraid to proceed. So one of the 
crowd had to go with him for the first meal or two. He 



122 JEFFKRSON DILLAKD GOODPASTURE. 

was a raliier iviiiarkal)le looking negvo, six feel one inch, 
well dressed, with a i)rna(l liriin]ne(l soft hat, (a kind 
unknown in ]''ngland) ereet in his wa.lk. a splendid 
]ih3-si([ne, intensely ^■ain in liis way, but polite and 
obedient at all times to his employer, lie v,as ex- 
tremely su])ei'slitious and believed strongly in dreams-. 
These jendei'ed iiini \ery unha])py \vhene\('r he ehaiieed 
to eat too niueli su[i[ier. lie had erossed on the steer- 
age of the boat, and the vessel had p)rodueed the same 
disturbing sort of dreams that they had with Judge 
Ciood])a.sture. One of these was so vi\id that, early one 
moniing, he sent for the Judge and son, and begged 
them, if the boat should go down, to send for him, so 
liiat they might all go down together. And they 
pu'omised him faithfidly tliat tliey would do so. 

Hut Johri sorui got used to the attention he altraelcd. 
Jn faet, he grew to like it. Judge Goodpasture suc- 
ceeded in eonvineing him that it was all on account of 
his good looks and splendid appearanee. This was 
easily done after he had occupied his gorgeous room 
at the (Jreat Xoi'th western, and because, later, in Paris, 
where the ])arty had registered at Gallignanni"s, antl 
where Campttell had again put it Hon. John Terry, his 
was the only name that appeared in the list of recent 
])rominent American arriv;ds. So that, what had, at 
the beginning, been a cause of fear, became a source of 
great pleasure and gratification. 

They visited a good nu^ny places in Tiverpool that 
inten'sted them, but while it is a large city of more 
than a half million of people, it is still purely com- 
mercial, and has not much to interest or detain the trav- 
eler. Xotliing there or elsewhere, though, so much 



THE STOl'I^IxV LIVERPOOL. 123 

iiiterestt'd .hid^uc (ioddpasliire, as tlieir ordinaiy dray 
horse. TJK'v iwo (■noniioiis in size. The North and 
West liave an ide;! of it, beeaiise of the very large im- 
portations of tlu' h'recd hroii^-lit to those seetions, l)ut 
the ordinary Southci'iici' ean Ijave no a])])reeiation of 
tlu'ir huge apjiearanec witliout seeing tlieni. Tlie Judge 
stopped one man and asked him tlie weiglit of ids horse. 
"Oil, something over a ton." said he. A jiair at these 
great horses were seen ]»ulling an extraordinary load 
along the (|uay. and soiuu (me aske<l the driver it' he 
did not have a very heavy load. "Ten tons,"' was the 
reply. One ean seareely l)elieve that a single pair of 
horses would haul a load of twenty thousand pounds, 
hut the streets of the eity are of stone, fairly level, and 
the hauls of eoniparatively short distanees. 

The |)arty went to see the eotton exehange, which 
lixes prices all over the world; visited the great docks 
and savv the loading and unloading of vessels for and 
from ports of every country on the glohe; and took in 
the sights of the town generally. At night, ihey went 
to see the Christmas })antoniime at the Princess Theater. 
These holiday jiantomimes are unknown in America, hut 
are enormously po])tdar here, performances heing 
crcjwded to the limit for weeks at a time. It was very 
heautiful, very novel as well as very interesting and 
entertaining. 

After their return to the hotel that night. Judge 
(JoodpastLire went to see how John was getting along in 
his line room. Ife had retired, but before doing so, 
had bathed as thoroughly as possible, put on his cleanest 
linen and tied his head up in his wash towel. He was 
determined to ])reserv(' untarnished the imm.U'ulate 



124 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

whiteness of bis sheets and pillow slips. The .Judge in- 
qmred of Ivini if he tlioiight lie could l)e comfortable in 
there. John said he thought he could. ]Ie had a brass 
bedstead, burnished until it shone in the greatest 
splendor. John said, ".Judge, do yon see this hero bed- 
stid? Well, sir, thafs gold, they ain't no bi-ass that 
could look like that.'" 

Early the next day they took ihe 
Foreign Rail- ^^..^j^^ ^y^^. j^(^ii(]on, occupying a third 

Road Trains. , , ,. ,, -^T■-t^ i n i t 

class coach of the Midland liailroad. 

These coaches were very comfortable, equal to second 
class in many ]iarts of the continent, and there being 
six of them, they were allowed a compartment to them- 
selves. The coaches over there, and all over Europe, 
are divided into compartments, and entrance is made 
from the side and not from the end. Instead of one 
smoker, as in America, there are usually quite a num- 
hvv in each train, and unless the cars are very much 
crowded, small ])arties can always be given a comjiart- 
ment to themselves. These are conveniences, but they 
are tlie only ones. They have no means of going from 
one compartment or coach to anothei'. no lavatory, no 
drinking water, and no retiring room,^. To the Ameri- 
can, these are not only conveniences, but they axe looked 
upon as necessities. The engines and coaches are very 
small and light, and if one occujiies a rear coach in a 
long train, his liair will fairly stand on end as he rounds 
the curves, for the English, as far as our observa- 
tion goes, make faster time than do our American trains. 
The American, we believe, are said to have the record 
for fastest time for a single run, but we know of no 
American road that makes the regular schedule as fast 



LONDOX. 125 

as the '"Wild Irishniaii"' or the "Flying Welshman.'' 
They have better bridges, better arrangements for en- 
tering and leaving towns and stations, and absolutely 
no obstructions on the track. 

The trip through the country was immensely enter- 
taining to the whole party, but to the Judge, more than 
any of the others. He always enjoyed the country more 
than the cities. Of the former, he never grew tired. 
In the latter, he chaffed and fretted until the time of 
departure. He was particularly struck by their manner 
of stacking and preserving straw. It was done with great 
precision and Ijeauty and was heavily covered with 
thatched straw. The Judge gave his enthusiastic en- 
dorsement to the plan. 

They arrived in due time at London, 
and found the ground covered with 
a light fall of snow. They were to stop at a most ex- 
cellent boarding house in the very heiirt of the city and 
the center of amusemeuts. kept by ilrs. Dysart at Xo. 1<J 
Arundel street, Strand, a place where one of the party 
had sfopped on more than one occasion previously. 
They took a closed. f<nir wheeled cab from the station. 
These London cabs are rather smaller than the Ameri- 
can, and all five of them were to go in it. John was to 
ride in front with the driver. They entered the cab, 
( ampbell occupying a seat in front. When they had 
barely seated themselves, (*am])bell declared, with great 
em])hasis. that with five peo])]e in there, it was unendur- 
al)ly close, and that he was l)ound to have air. He diir- 
(•(jvered that tlie windows coidd not l)e let down, and 
this made him want air worse than ever. Finally, John 
mounted the high perch of the driver just as the horses 



126 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

started, sat abruptly down to the rear of the seat, and 
crashed tlirough the gUiss directly over Caniphell's head, 
the glass pouring down upon him in a perfect deluge. 
Th.e Judge remarked: "Don't he ahu'med, Mr. C'amp- 
ijell, he is only trying to accommodate you with a little 
fresh air.'" They had plenty of fresh air after that. i\nd 
paid two or tliree dollars for it at the end of the journey. 
They had plenty of air, too, a week later, in driving back 
to tlie station, v.hen a boy threw a snow-ball through the 
ghiss window. 

They were vci'y much on the go in London for the 
next few days, visiting numerous places of great liis- 
toric interest, the House of Parliament, the statue of 
Prince Albert, without doubt the handsomest in luirope. 
at least to the ordinary visitor; through the Bank of 
England; riding on the to]) of omnibuses and watching 
the panorama of fleeting houses and crowds on High 
Holborn, Fleet street and Eotten Eow; seeing Eegent 
Park and London Bridge; going through St. Paul's, one 
of the best known churches in the world; and a great 
many other places no tourist can miss, but which have 
been described until a rej^etition would be a bore. 

Jt was very remarkalile tlie way Judge (loodpasture, 
at his age, and having grown rather fleshy, was able to 
get around over the city with his crowd of lusty young 
fellows. He was on tlie go from moi-ning until late at 
night. 

All wanted to go to tlie Druiw Lane Theater to see the 
great ])antominie — Aladdin and liis Wonderful Lamp. 
It had been written u]) and illustrated iii the American 
}>e]-iodical literature. Harper's Weekly having given an 
especially good representation of it. They wanted to 



LONDON. 127 

see the '"Dream of Fair Women,'' and tlie historic rep- 
resentation of Nell Gwynn, w^ho had ])layed in this 
theater over two hundred years before. All the reserved 
seats and boxes had been sold for weeks beforehand. 
But the first floor or pit (with our theatei-s in Nashville 
it is the highest priced part of the house) is never re- 
served, but is open to a scramble for all those who have 
been unable to get reserved seats. Only ordinary 
benches, however, are pro\dded for occu}>ants of this 
part of the house. They went early — at least an hour 
before the opening, and took their stand with a crowd 
who had gathered directly in front of the ticket office. 
The price of seats Avas only two shillings (about fifty 
cents). The crowd increased rapidly and continuou.sly, 
and before long they were jammed in together as closely 
as sardines in a box. The entrance door and ticket office 
Avere opened simultaneously, and there was an awful 
rush and scramble that batfles all description. There 
did not appear to be any women in the crowd, and if 
any, they were very few, and must have been of the 
most daring. 

In the push and rush and scramble, men were car- 
ried clear off their feet and onto the backs of the surging 
crowd. Judge Goodpasture had all the buttons torn off 
his overcoat. Some big burly fellow, in trying to get 
over the crowd, got his foot in Jackson's overcoat 
pocket, and tore it down to the hem. Jack would have 
been mad had he not been so rejoiced at getting through 
with whole bones. The party were carried on through 
the door by the surging crowd, but once inside, relief 
was instant, and they secured good seats. All were in 
a crushed and perspiiing condition. 



128 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

The tlieatiT and pit are enoi'moiis in size, and iho 
latter was filled to the last seat in an incredibly short 
time. Those occupying boxes and scats in the dress 
circle came in leisurely, and much later, in full dress, 
lookin<^ superbly handsome and very <;ay and happ\ ; 
and the Judjj^e's party thought it not strange tliat tlicre 
shoidd be envy and discontent at classes, there seemed 
such a distance from their place to those above them. 
And then they looked so entirely satisfied and comfort- 
able, with an abundance of room, elegantly upholstered, 
cushioned seats, a maid to take charge of their cloaks 
and wraps, separated from the crowd in railed off boxes, 
in which they received short calls, and chatted gaily 
with the young society men of the town. The Judge's 
party sat below on common, hard, old field school 
benches, crowded and nudged by those sitting next them, 
mixed up with the mob, and only thankful that they 
were allowed to live and look up with envy at their bet- 
ters. Oh well, they could stand it, for they would soon 
be back at i^Iashvillc, where they could strut the streets 
''as big a man as old Grant." 

A pretty tough experience, but they all felt fully re- 
paid (unless it was Jack), after seeing the performance. 
It surpassed their wildest dreams of spectacular display. 

AVhile in the city, they called and presented their let- 
ters to ex-Governor Waller, wlio was then the Consid- 
General to London. He was an intellectual, short, stout 
looking man, and treated them very kindly. He after- 
wards made a telling speech in the national Democratic 
Convention at Chicago, in ISDO, which some of them 
heard. 



CHAPTER XI. 

Thev left grim old London town for 
Leave for Paris, -r, ^ -, j. t>, j n i • 

raris by way ot JJover and Calais. 

The boat in wliicli they crossed the English Channel 
was quite a small one, and soon began to bob up and 
down to the great discomfort of the passengers. It was 
after midnight, and as the sail is a short one, no private 
rooms were provided, Init all the men had to pile up on 
cots in one large saloon. A double row of cots, upper 
and lower, as in a sleeping car, extended entirely around 
the saloon. These cots were provided with ominous 
looking tin vessels, foT it seems that people mil get sea- 
sick crossing the Channel who can defy the ocean. 
John got pretty sick crossing the Atlantic but would 
never acknowledge it, seeming to feel that it would, in 
some way, be to his discredit. As he had been in a dif- 
ferent part of the vessel from the others in coming over, 
he could conceal it from them to a great extent. But 
not so in this little boat. xVli lay down. Jack was soon 
heaving, and in a little while so were the other boys, 
and so were numerous other passengers on all sides. 
The boys looked around to see how John was resting. 
He had run his curtain around so as to conceal liimself 
as much as possible, and was very sljdy drinking out of 
a dark colored bottle, in appearance very suggestive of 
whiskey. He afterwards acknowledged that there was 
so much sickness around him that he was "bleeged to 
take something to settle his stomach." 
9 



130 JEFFBRSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

When they landed at Calais, and had their baggage 
examined by the custom officers, they took a light break- 
fast at a very good restaurant (that is kept open all night 
for the benefit of travelers) although it was not yet light. 
Here they boarded a train for Paris. It was the first 
time in life that Judge Goodpasture had been in any 
place where English v/as not the current language, and 
it seemed to come on him all of a sudden that here was, 
indeed, a people who did not comprehend a word that 
he said. About eight o'clock that morning, when they 
had stopped at a station for a moment, a very polite, 
farmer looking old gentleman, took the train and came 
into their coach. The Judge turned on him saying: 
"You low dov/n, dirty villian, get out of here at once 
or I will kick you out." "Oui, oui, monsieur," said the 
old Frenchman, bowing and smiling as he took his seat. 
The boys roared with laughter. They afterwai-ds found 
this to be a dangerous sort of pastime. 

They were now passing through the province of Nor- 
mandy, and as the train sped along, they looked out on 
the most beautiful agricultural country in all the world. 
Normandy may not be its prettiest province, but sunny 
France, as a whole, stands unrivalled in beauty and 
fertility. 

When they ai-rived in Paris, theii* 
baggage was again examined, as the 
city has a municipal custom duty, and on a multi- 
tude of articles not taxed by the State. Among these 
are food products of all kinds. They arrived about 11 
o'clock a.m., and after depositing their baggage at the 
hotel (they stopped at the Grand Hotel de Suez, across 
the Seine and near the Latin Quarter), went out in 



PARIS. 131 

town. As all of them were himgry, they stopped m 
at a restaurant to get breakfast. People on the con- 
tinent breakfast at 11 or 12 and dine at 6 or 7 o'clock. 
They were handed a bill of fare, and the only thing any 
of them could make out was beefsteak. Therefore, 
each ordered beefsteak. As they were very hungT}-, 
all agreed that they ought to have a little more variety, 
so one of the boys picked out something on the bill of 
fai'e, after examining it ^nth great care, and pointed it 
out to the waiter. His order was understood. Then 
each of them in turn took it and very solemidy pointed 
out to the astonished waiter the same thing. They 
speculated a good deal while it was being prepared, as 
to what it would turn out to be. Some thought it might 
be horse meat, as the I'arisians are said to greatly enjoy 
that delicacy. Judge Goodpasture said it made no sort 
of difference to him what it was, just so it was not sheep. 
They were already devouring their steak, and about the 
time they had finished it, in came the waiter with six 
several orders of green string beans, cooked without 
bacon or grease. The Judge declared he always did like 
beans, and that these gave him a splendid opporiunit}' 
to finish off a good meal. He asked for vinegar. Jolm 
had never seen any olive oil before, and as it was in a 
\inegar bottle, and very much the same in appearance, 
he very naturally mistook it for vinegar, and passed it 
over. The Judge poured it bountifully over liis 
beans without discovering Ms mistake. The first bite 
was of so unexpected, nasty, slimy taste, that he came 
as nearly as possible having a case of sea-sickness on 
shore. 

Of course they went to see the gTeat art galleiy at the 



132 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

Louvre, the tomb of Napoleon at the Hotel Des In- 
valides, House of Deputies, rode through the Champs 
Elysee, saw the Arehe de Triomph, the Column Yen- 
dorne, the Grand Opera (the most expensive amusement 
building in the world), and watched the ever changing 
kaleidoscope of the gay boulevards. In the evening, 
they generally found something to entertain them. A 
pai-t of the crowd M'ent to see the divine Sarah (Bern- 
hardt) at the Theatre Francais, while others enjoyed 
the music at the Eden Theater. If amusement is the 
^hing sought, every taste can be satisfied in Paris. Still, 
jhere are things that cannot be found even there. 
Jack's foot was still troubling him gTeatly, the effect of 
having tried to kick the bottom out of a life-boat on the 
steamer, coming over, and he went to all the drug stores 
lie could find in the city for a certain kind of liniment, 
without success, having finally, much against his mil, 
to tixke a French article, the efficacy of which he was 
in great doubt. 

They were to take an early train for 
Madrid via Bordeaux, and the hotel 
gave them an early breakfast. They 
were asked what they would have to drink. iVll said 
coffee except Jolm, who said he would take brandy; 
and he gave a pretty lucid explanation of it — that he 
could get plenty of coffee at home but "sich drinks as 
this here French brandy was a scace article to meet up 
^-ith." 

They had a very pleasant time for a part of the way, 
going to Madrid. They passed through Bordeaux dur- 
ing the night, and next day found themselves speeding 
along the beautiful fields of Southern Fnince. Every- 



Leave for 
Madrid. 



MADRID. 133 

thing was gi'eeii, and the air was bahuy and delightful. 
They crossed the Spanish frontier early in the afternoon 
of the second day, and reached the foot of the PjTenees 
l>efore night. Here wild strawberries and roses were in 
hlooni, though it was in the month of January. They 
had not gone more than half way up the mountain he- 
fore a very heavy snow began falling, and it was growing 
steadily colder. There was no way of heafing the car 
excejjt by the introduction of a long hollow iron, filled 
with hot A\'ater. Tliis was only good for the fe«t and 
seemed to have no eif ect on the car. It became most dis- 
agreeably cold. To make matters worse, a piece had been 
broken out of one of the windo'ws of their compartment, 
through which the cold wind came whistling. They had 
started from Paris Avith a good lunch, and got along well 
for the first day, but on tliis day, they had had little, if 
cinyijiing to eat, the mountain stations being illy pro- 
\ided. They finally secured three sandwiches and a 
piclsJed bird. 

The snow continued to pour down, 
and it was greatly feared that they 
would become snow bound in this cold mountainous 
country, and they shuddered at the thought of it. Tliey 
did not sleep any that night, and arrived early the next 
morning at j\Iadrid, stopping at the Hotel de Ijondres, 
in the center of the town. 

I'hey found themselves in the midst of the most 
distinctive people in appearance they had yet seen, 
'i'be male portion of the inhabitants were walking leis- 
urely al)out, with long Spanish blankets wrapped around 
their bodies, moA-ing with all the dignity of old Roman 
Senators, and \A-eariny: Ijroad brimmed sombrero hats. 



134 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

Beggars were going up and down the streets playing 
^\•retched tunes on still more wretched guitars. 

Here the}- saw for the first time, thongh the sight 
became very familiar later, in other cities of Spain, 
female asses being driven about for the sale of their 
milk. AVlien u purchase is made, the herd is stopped, 
one is milked and the amount ordered is turned over to 
the purchaser absolutely fresh and warm. It is greatly 
esteemed over there by invalids. At the hotel, they 
tasted for the first time goat butter. It is mean, sticky 
and very inferior. Spain has no dairy breed of cattle, 
and uses the least possible amount of milk, none to 
drink and only a small quantity for coffee, as most peo- 
ple drink it with only sugar and brandy. 

They Avere not a little astonished at some tilings 
noticed at dinner. People in European hotels dine at 
w hat is known as table d' bote — that is, all sit down at 
one long table, and the meal is served in regular courses. 
There is no ordering from a bill of fare as in America. 
If one should not like what is brought in a course, he 
must wait until that is over before he can. get the one 
to follow. In Spain, there are usually eight or nine 
courses, and the hotel fares are better than in other 
countries of the continent. It talvcs an hom* and often 
more, to dine. In the center of the table were placed 
cigarettes, in jjackagcs of five hundred. Wine and 
brandy being free, some of the party supposed cigarettes 
were also, and helped themselves. After the meal, the 
Mhole package was sent to John's room. John thought 
that perhaps his good looks had once more gained him 
special favors, but upon inquiry it was found that they 
had been charged about four dollars for them. Ther 



MEET THE AMERICAN MINISTER. 135 

compromised by paying tliirty cents for what they had 
taken, and returned the package. 

At the table, the party were divided, and on opposite 
sides. Campbell remarked: "I say, Good, this fellow 
sitting beside me is looking at yon mighty hard." 
"Yes," replied the party addressed, "and he looks like 
a pirate." Campbell agi-eed at once that he was a 
villain, when suddenly the man turned and said in good 
English, "Where are you from?" 

They called on the American niin- 

^■^^^ MinfTr" ^^^■®^'' ^^''- ^'^"■^'' ^^ ^'^^"® treated 
with great cordiality and kindness. 

Americans do not get to Madrid verv^ often, and he 
seemed really rejoiced to meet some genuine Americans 
and Southerners. At his m-gent solicitation, they 
called several times before IccXving the city. On one 
occasion, he had just dressed to go to a diplomatic meet- 
ing, wearing the conventional dress suit — a dress tliat 
is prescribed by Congress, at least the law prescril>es 
that all American representatives abroad shall dress in 
the garb of American citizens, except those who have 
held commissions in the United States army, and these 
are entitled to wear the uniform of their ra.nk. Mr. 
Curry's militaiy services had been on the other side, and 
so he could only dress as a civilian. Tliis, he said, 
often proved embarrassing. All the other diplomatic 
representatives dressed in the full uniform of a ranking 
officer, with sword and other trappings. Under these cir- 
cumstances, when he woidd meet with the representa- 
tives from other countries, he was in danger of being 
taken for an interpreter or a servant. The waiters at 
all the leading hotels and cafes in Europe wear full 



136 JEFFERSON DII^LARD GOODPASTURE. 

dress suits. The Charge d' Affaires was Mr. Stroble, a 
native of one of the Carolinas, a graduate of Yale and 
an exceedingly nice gentleman, whose endeavors to 
make their stay i)leasant were greatly appreciated. He 
spent several evenings with them and carried a part of 
the crowd to Toledo to see the town and the Esciirial 
Palace. 

Among others to whom he introduced them was a 
young American dentist, who Avas getting into a fine 
practice. Americans are the best dentists in the world, 
and ai'e scattered about all over the continent. They 
are better paid than are the natives, and receive a 
more desirable class of patrons. No science has made 
such rapid advancements in theoiy, practice and in- 
struments, and most of it has been done in Amei'ica, 
Few of these late discoveries have yet reached the native 
European practitioner. 

They were very much gratified, afterwards, when Mr. 
Cleveland, in his second term, made Mr. Stroble minister 
to one of the South iVmerican countries. 

We cannot leave Madrid without a 
wurd or two on the National Art Gal- 
lery, though to describe such places is generally tire- 
some. This collection was made by Philip, when the 
best specimens of the old mastere were very cheap, and 
an apju'eciation of high art at its lowest ebb, and his 
purchases have been held, until now they ai'e priceless. 
It i? not a large galleiy but there is scarcely a painting in 
the collection that is not the genuine work of a famous 
name. It is by far the completest collection in the world 
of the works of the famous Spanish artists, Ribiera and 
Muviilo, and the largest collection known to the writer 



ART GALLERY. 137 

of the Flemish painter, Reubens, besides containing ex- 
cellent canvases, too numerous to mention, by Rem- 
brandt, Raphael, De Yinci, Paul Veronese, Tintoretto 
and others. It is by no means the largest gallery in 
Europe, but it is without doubt one of the most valuable 
and select. Tliis was a gTeat surprise. 

Judge Goodpasture thought Madrid the handsomest 
city he had ever seen, and his stay there was enjoyed 
more than in any other. The Judge and some of the 
others ^vent out one evening with their interpreter about 
two hours by sun to buy a pipe, but all the shops were 
closed for the day — not because of some celebration 
but by custom. They ^^•aited until next day and liad 
to search two hours before they could find one. The 
Spanish do not smoke pipes, but a great many use cigar- 
ettes and a few, very bad cigars. Neither do they chew. 
Che\Adng tobacco cannot ordinarily be bonght in the 
country. 

Madrid has the finest drive of any city in Eiu'ope, a 
b.ill with winding roads, from the top of which an un- 
surpassed view is had of the entire countiy as far as 
the eye can reach. All fashionable hfe drives up there 
of an afternoon, and as many as two thousand carriages 
can be seen in Hne of a pleasant day. Their horses are 
p] ettier and more stylish than in any other of the great 
cities of Europe or America. Nearly all of them are 
Arabian barbs, and are usually stallions. They are 
bought in Andalusia, and are smaller tlian the light 
horses of France and England. So much importance, 
in a social way, is attached to the possession of a pair 
of horses and carriage, by the people of the capital, 
that it is said, thov will live in a garret and subsist 



138 JEFFERSON DII^LARD GOODPASTURE. 

Oil beans and bread alone^ in order to drive in the 
afternoon. 

Everyone with whom the Judge considted here ad- 
\isod him to go to Andalusia for the best Jacks. Ao- 
eordingly, h.o and his son and John, parted from the 
l)oys, who were going from Madrid to Toledo, and took 
the trciin for the ancient city of Cordova. A good part 
of the way lay through the most sterile, driest and 
ch'eariest country to be foimd anywhere. Mile after mile 
was passed over without seeing a shrub or living thing, 
here and there seeing large towns without a single in- 
habitant, a mouraful suggestion of Spain's former great- 
ness. She once supported a population of more than 
sixty millions of people; now she has less than seventeen 
millions. All this arid desert through which they 
passed once bloomed like the rose, and supported a large 
and prosperous population. But it has ceased to rain 
in tho.se parts, and there is no water for irrigation. 

On arri\ing at Cordova they stopped 

at the Hotel Orientale, recom- 
Cordova. 

mended by Baedeker, and a most ex- 
cellent place- They secured an interpreter early the 
next morning, one Baccariza by name, who had Kttle 
information and less sense, was vain and sensitive to a 
degree, but wliithal, a kind-hearted and good man. He 
had some experience, too, that was thought would make 
him valuable. He had been the intei'preter and guide 
to General Grant and party wlien in this part of Spain, 
and had assisted Leonard Brothers, of Missouri, in pur- 
chases when they made an importation of Jacks a few 
years before. Baccariza said that he knew notliing 
about how or where to find the stock, but that he could 



GO TO CORDOVA. 1 39 

talk, and that he knew a gypsy who was a stock com- 
missioner and the best about the town. We never got 
to know the name of tliis commissioner further than 
Louie. Gypsies are tliick in Spain, and instead of be- 
iuo- alt-ogether nomadic as with us, a large number of 
Ihoiii live in towns, and are well to do citizens. 



CHAPTER XII. 

Judge Goodpasture engaged Louie, 
*^''*^ and began to scour the countiy for 

jacks. They found nothing, prac- 
tically, except gray ones, some of these, however, were 
excellent animals. Even with their limited experience, 
tliey knew that the black were the ones for their market. 
They could hear vague rumors of black jacks in Cata- 
lonia in the Xorth, and on the island of Majorca, but 
it seemed almost impo^ssible to get information on v\']ijc]i 
to rely in Spain, and especially through a fool inter- 
|)reter. r)Ut after they found that only gray ones could 
be had around Cordova, ^Y. H. Goodpasture took the 
train for Valencia, a city on the Mediterrauean almost 
opposite ]\Iajorca, about half way to Barcelona. AVhen 
he went to the station, he was greatly surprised to find 
Palmer, Jackson and Campbell on the train. They had 
been to Seville and the Alhambra, and were now on 
their way to Paris by way of Valencia. Tliey sto])i>ed off 
for a day at the latter place. 

The trip was destined to be a fruitless one. The 
American consul could not s]>eak English, and Mr. Good- 
])asture had no interpreter and was unable to secure one 
in the town. He had recourse to the English consulate 
where he was well treated, but none in the office knew 
anytliing of jacks. He heard it said that the biggest 
and Ijcst mules came from Majorca, but even here, the 



SEARCH FOR JACKS. I4I 

preponderance of opinion was, that Andalusia, and 
especially Cordova, was the best place to buy good ja^iksA. 
So he returned to Cordova, and bnying was at once 
begun. 

Traveling to see jacks in the country was done largely 
by rail, but sometimes it was necessary to take carriages 
to points remote from the railroad. Jack buying and 
mixing with the peasants is a very pleasajit occupation, 
and woidd have been especially so if they had been able 
to find what was wanted. 

One day they drove so far out into the counti7 that 
they had to spend the night in a small \allage. There 
was no hotel there, and they stopped at what is known 
as a posada, that is, a place where teams are accom- 
modated. The woman who ran the place agreed to fur- 
nish them sleeping apartments, but could not feed them. 
She consented though, to cook their food if they would 
buy it. This was entirely agreeable, and they had the 
good ^v'oman to make the purchases for them, giving her 
carte blanche as to what and how much she should buy. 
The residt was everything desired, and they had a good 
dinner — soup, omelette (for which Spain is famous), 
cooked with young, tender asparagus tips, chicken 
cooked on a spit w^hich revolved in front of the fire, the 
woman from time to time pouring basting over it: 
sausage, fruits, cheese and black coffee. The bread was, 
of com-se, cold, and was placed on the table in spikes 
about three feet long and three or four inches in diame- 
ter. 

Judge Goodpasture sat in the corner of the fireplace 
and smoked, while tiie cooking was in progress. These 
fireplaces are very deep and eight or ten feet wide, the 



142 JEFFERSON mi,I,AKD GOODPASTURE. 

fire occupying a small place in the center. No large 
wood is t-o be had, either here or in France, but their 
fires are altogether of brush, obtained from trimming 
the hedges and trees. The Judge was very anxious to 
talk to the busy females, but nothing is more unsatis- 
factoiy than a social conversation through an interpreter. 
He did find out, however, from the servant girl, whom 
he pronounced the best looking woman he had seen in 
Spain, the amoimt she received per month for her ser- 
Aices. He also foimd out that she had no sort of desire 
to go to America. They ate dinner with their fingers 
and pocket knives. 

After their return to Cordova, W.H. Goodpasture took 
the train to Jativa, in the province of Jaen, near tlie Al- 
hambra, to see what was to be had there, but not enough 
could be found to justify shipping the distance. On liis 
return, he went to Malaga, where he investigated the 
question with the aid of an interpreter named Lobo. 
Lobo was said to be flighty and of weak mind, and had 
taken up the calKng of guide, courier and interpreter, 
not having sense enough for anything else. While there 
were innumerable small pack jacks found in the Malaga 
district, there were none large enough to import. All, 
there, at Valencia and Jativa were gray. These various 
tri2>s are mentioned to show how they were ignorantjy 
groping about and striving to find something they knew 
to exist but were utterly without information as to where 
it existed. Six or seven hours ride from Valencia by 
boat, less than a single night, would have carried them 
into the home of the biggest black jacks in Europe. It 
seems strange that specific information could not be ob- 
tained about them, but the Judge and son were imable to 



judge's friend. 143 

talk the language, did not know of whom to inquire, 
their interpreter had no sense, and their commissioner 
v.'as interested in selling in his own section, his employ- 
ment depending upon it. 

They completed their purchases in Cordova and the 
country surrounding it, getting two black jacks and 
a black jennet out of an importation of twenty-two head. 
They paid considerably more than the regular price 
there, the gypsy commissioner doubtless getting a good 
share of the excess. But if there is any way to help 
this, they never discovered it, even with the added ex- 
perience of later importations — in fact, they were worse 
robbed on the second importation than in the first, or, 
possibly, in any succeeding ones. 

An old fellow sold them a rather 
Judge's common jack at an uncommonly 

high price, considering quality. They 
goon discovered that they had paid too much, but said 
nothing. It put the old Spaniard in great good humor 
with the world in general, and when they had paid him, 
he had more money in his pocket than he had ever had 
before in Ms life. He took a great fancy to Judge Good- 
pasture, although neither could say a word to the other, 
and would follow him around wherever he went. If 
they went out to the suburbs to see sometliing, a distance 
too short to take a carriage, he would get his old gray 
horse for the Judge to ride, while he himself and the 
rest would walk. If they took the train to some far oif 
village, he would go too, pa.ying his own railroad fare, 
and carrying his food with liim for the trip. The Judge 
was partly responsible for this. He would pat the old 
fellow on the back, and have the interpreter tell him he 



144 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

was the greatest and one of the very cleverest men he 
had ever had the pleasure of meeting in Europe. After 
these speeches, he would invariably offer the Judge a 
cigar. This grew to be quite comical, for the same thing, 
with variations, was gone over day after day, whenever 
the Judge wanted to see a little fan, or smoke a bad cigar. 
After completing their purchases, 
the jacks were collected in a stable 
at Cordova and put in charge of John. They had ax- 
ranged to ship from Malaga to London, and thence to 
Xew York. The boat was not to leave for some time, 
and they preferred to keep the stock in Cordova until 
the time of sailing. One day, when they had been to 
the stable looking at the stock, and were returning to 
the hotel, they saw coming, what looked like one of the 
most enormous men ever seen, walking leisurely in their 
direction. The Spanish are quite a small people and 
do not wear overcoats. But they were surprised to see 
that this man wore a great heavy one that came to his 
heels. This greatly increased their interest and aston- 
ishment. Upon getting a little closer, the Judge turned, 
the very picture of amazement, and said, "Upon my 
word, I do believe it is Plumlee." And so it tiu'ned out 
to be, Dr. B. S. Plumlee, an old friend from the good 
county of Clay, who had taken the fever and had him- 
self come for jacks. Now, Plumlee is a thoroughly 
good fellow, uncommonly handsome and smart, and an 
interesting talker as well. A splendid suit of new Paris 
clothes added to the importance of his appeai-anee. The 
Judge ceased to be a great maai after liis advent, except 
in the eyes of his Fidus Achilles, and everj-thing was 
"Senor Doctoree.^^ 



DESCRIPTION OF CORDOVA. I45 

Xotliing would do Plunilee but that they should go 
back and show him their stock. He looked through the 
lot with great care, one at a time. As intimated, the 
Doctor is a rarely shrewd man. So he praised them all 
to the extent the occasion seemed to require, but appar- 
ently was not talvcn vrith any in particular. Finally, 
he suggested to the Judge that as he Avanted to go to 
Poitou, France, and purchase, he would not buy m 
Spain, but still, if the Judge would sell liim two or tlixee 
of his at a fair profit, which he said he was willing to 
pay, he thought he might trade with him. The Judge 
told him he did not desire to make any money off of 
Mm, as he was on the ground; but Plumlee said that 
would be all right, and the Judge agreed to price the 
stock to liim. At his request, the Judge priced each of 
the Jacks and a part of the jennets. Plumlee walked 
down the line and said: "I will take tliis one." All 
right said the Judge. "And this one," said Plumlee. 
"Plumlee, you have got to stop right there," said the 
Judge, vnih emphasis. He had picked out the best two 
year ©Id jack in the lot and his only black jennet, and 
she in foal. "You may have the two selected, but I 
would not go home," declared the Judge, "with all the 
best jacks yours for a thousand dollars. You -ttill have 
to buy the balance like we did, here in the country." 

Judge Goodpasture, on leaAdng Cordova, thus writes 

a friend, describing it: 

"Cordova, as Campbell would say, is 
Description ^ ^^^^^^ ^-^^ j^ j^^g ^^^^^ g-^ty 

thousand inhabitants, and is about 
three thousand years old. With the exception of a few 
modem ones, there is not a street in the city that is 
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146 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

straight for one hundred yards, and are from eight to 
fifteen feet wide, all paved with rock. There are many 
places of great int-erest. The bridge across the Guadal- 
quivir is a stone structure in first rate repair, and Avas 
built by the Romans more than two thonsand years ago. 
There stand in the river tln-ee stone vrater mills, each 
puite as old as the bridge. 

"The Mosque at this place is the gi'catest v.onder of 
them all. It is one of the largest churches in the world, 
being about 600 feet by 450, and is supported inside 
by 1050 large columns, made of marble, porphyiy and 
all the finest stones of the East. ]\Iany of these were 
brought from the ancient city of Jerusalem. It was 
built in 712. The main chapel has tAvo organs, each 75 
feet high, and are of comparatively recent date, beiug 
placed there 150 years ago. 

'"'The country around Cordova is the richest I have 
ever seen. It will bring from fifty to seventy-five 
bushels of com to the acre, and everything else in pro- 
portion. I was out on a large farm near the city yester- 
day. We were in a pasture field of a thousand acres. 
Upon it Avere gi-azing some goats ,some donkeys, and 
about five hundred head of cattle. These cattle were 
all of solid colors, either jet black or dark red, the most 
of them vei*y large, with enormous horns, manv of theui 
five feet from tip to tip. In the herd Avas a big 1)1 ac^ bull 
that Avould Aveigh about 2,500 pounds, Avith liurn,-, more 
than two feet long. He started toAvard us, and Avas 
folloAved by probably a dozen others. Our inteiiireter 
and ourselves made for some small trees on the bank 
of the river. In our flight Ave came upon the lierdsman, 
Avho assm-ed us that there was no danger unless the 



DESCRIPTION OF CORDOVA. 147 

whole herd shoukl eoiiu". We did not disturb the cattle 
any more. 

'"The ^^oals were of a dark I'ed color, and very large, 
with two wattles under the neck about four inches Ion':, 
and udders almost as large as those of cows. The}- 
drive herds of these into the city and sell their niilk. 
Many are slaughtered as kids. They raise every kind 
of stock here that is to he found in Tennessee. 

''The peasants live hard; they eat little meat, but sub- 
sist on cheap bread, wine and frtiits, with more or less 
beans. One can see a man that has lived in a hovel, on 
cheap bread and beans come out and strut the streets 
in a flashy cloak ^\-ith red velvet lining and a fancy tur- 
ban on his head. A stranger would tliink he was one 
of the nobility. I suppose no people in the world are 
fonder of dress than the Spaniards, or dress better. 
They are a very handsome people, both men and women, 
and polite to excess. If one meets an acquaintance a 
dozen time a day, he always shakes hands. 

"In Cordova, the ladies, except the poorer classes, sel- 
dom walk out on the streets. They can be seen, how- 
ever, through the windows in pa.ssing. The young folks, 
1 am told, make love at the windovrs. One frequently 
sees a nicely dressed young fellow, standing otitside at 
the window, talking to some beautiful young woman in- 
side. These vrindows are made safe with fixed iron jjars 
like a jail. The young ladies are all beautiful. 

"All kinds of friuts and vegetables are plentifid here; 
oranges, large and fine, six cents a dozen; figs, and grapes 
of every kind, cheap; wine by the ban-el, eight cents a 
gallon, in quart bottles eighteen cents. Coffee is not 
mucli used at the table, being drunk principally at the 



148 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

cafes. Everyone uses wine at every mea], a quai't bot- 
tle being placed at each plate. I do not think they use 
to excess any other drink. 1 have not seen a drunk num 
in Sj)ain.'"' 

Judge Goodpasture never displayed much talent in 
the matter of finding his way in a city, and was especiaJlv 
troubled in Cordova, Avith its multitude of naiTOw, 
crooked streets, running in all directions. He never 
went out there alone without getting lost. He could 
not inquire of anyone, and would walk until he suddenly 
and very unexpectedly, found liim&elf outside the walls 
of the city, on the Alameda, near the railroad station, 
l.uckily, the station and hotel were on the same street, 
and in this way he could find his way back. Strangely 
enough, eveiy time he was lost he finally, after much 
tiresome- walking and worry, suddenly came out at the 
same place, and each time would surpi*ise him worse 
than the preceding one. It made no sort of difference 
in what direction he tried to go, he would finally arrive 
at that place all the same. 

They shipped their stock by rail to 
^ ^^*' Malaga, and arrived there a little be- 

fore night. jMalaga is built quite similarly to Cordova, 
the streets just as naiTOw and crooked, making it quite 
as easy to get lost. John, the interpreter and. the writer, 
went to the stable to feed and attend to the stock, the 
Judge being quite tired, remaining at the hotel. But 
after a bit he concluded he A\-ould follow, and left the 
hotel alone. He was soon lost. There is a very pretty 
little park in the city, not over one hundred yards square. 
The Judge ran into this park four or five times, until it 
looked like he could not get away from it. He was by 



MALAGA. 149 

thiti time very tired indeed, and had ceased trying to 
find the stable, and was endeavoring to get back to the 
hotel. In the meantime, he had forgotten its name, if 
he had CA'er noticed it enough to learn it. Finally, after 
])eing abont broken do\ni. he saw in front of a large 
building a gentleman who looked like an Englishman, 
and so he proved to be. The Judge told him his 
trouble; that he was lost and did not know the name of 
his hotel, or where it was. ''Well,'' said the gentleman, 
"tliis is the place right here, where you ate yom- supper."' 
He had Avalked rapidly for an hour and a half and wa.s 
intensely relieved. 

Finding one's way in a strange city is as much a 
natural talent as any gift that can be suggested. Some 
[x'ople find their way seemingly by intuition, without 
any sort of trouble, while others will lose all sense of 
direction, and go the wrong way quite as readily as the 
riffht. But anv sort of man. with anv deoree of talent, 
would be excusable for getting lost in C'oi-dova or 
^Malaga. 

They had a very queer and very persistent visitor 
just before sailing for London. A farmer living near 
Cordova had thi-ee Jacks which he was very anxious to 
sell at a big price. They had left there withont seeing 
ihem. In his anxiety to sell,- the owner put them on the 
cars and shipped them to ]\Ialaga. AVhen he arrived, he 
did not have the money to pay the freight, which he 
ex])ected to pay out of the proceeds of liis sale. He was 
in a fix. The Judge had bought his full complement, 
and could buy no more. The poor fellow insisted, and 
C(mtinued to insist, until they sailed away and left him 
in his trouble. 



CHAPTER XIII. 

W\' cannot. Jeavo Spain without a 

woi'cl as to the Andalnsian women. 
Women. 

Andahisia was, for a long time, oc- 
cupied by, and in complete possession of, the iMoors. 
Their splendid moequc at Cordova, the beautiful palace 
of the Alhambra, the gi'and castles at Jativa, ^lalaga 
and elsewhere, all proclaim them to have been a great 
]>eople, and it is now generally admitted that, at tliat 
lime, they were in advance of the Spanish. These 
Southern provinces, the fairest and most fertile of the 
country, were conquered by Ferdinand and Isabella and 
confiscated and occupied by their subjects, the larger part 
of the JMoors leaving the country. But many remained, 
and in time became mixed with, aiid absorbed by, the 
Spanish population. This has given to the women of 
the latter, the most glorious eyes that ever spake love to 
mortal. Heavy eyebrows, a small downy mustache, 
intensely black hair, a rather small but i)erfect tigui'c. 
small feet and hands, excellent taste in dress, the head 
covered with lace mantillas, out of which those mag- 
niticent eyes shine luminotisly — this is the lovely senorita 
of song and story. She is not the most sensible of 
women, nor the best educated, nor yet the least frivol- 
ous, but from a purely aesthetic point, she i.s the most 
attractive of all her sex. 

Judge Goodpasture thought her mustache her chief 



MALAGA TO LONDON. 151 

attraction, at least he niado Baccariza tliink so. When 

he saw a woman, old or young, good or bad looking, 

who had been particulaiiy blessed with tills hirsute 

adornment, he would call the interpreters attention to 

it, and to how Yerj becoming it was. • So Baccariza 

brought his ^vife all the way up to the hotel one day, 

that the Judge might see what a fine mustache she had. 

She looked like one of Shakespeare's witches, but as m 

duty bound, the Judge was duly enthusiastic. Still, the 

fact remains, that the Andalusian woman surpasses all 

her sisters in the one matter of beauty, though all, or 

nearly all, are of the same general type, and do not 

present that great variety that is found in America. 

Judge Goodpastm^e wrote as follows of the voyage 

he had now undertaken: 

"^'On the 10th day of rebru.ary, my 

Malaga to ^^^^^ ^YiUie, John Terry, colored, and 
London. 

myself, embarked on the good ship 

Cadiz, at Malaga, Spain, bound for London. 

"Malaga is located on the JMediterranean coast, about 
one hundred and fifty miles from Gibraltar. It contains 
a population of 126,000 people; is a city of great com- 
mercial importance, its principal trade being in fiiiits 
and mnes, a large proportion of which are shipped to 
the United States. Mj purpose, however, is to describe 
the voyage and not the country. 

"We steamed out at six o'clock p.m. The bay looked 
beautiful. The hills of Malaga were adorned by the 
still standing castles and fortifications of the Moors, and 
the declining sun seemed to be in unison with the fading 
glories of the countiy. 

"Our captain was a very inquisitive as well as com- 



152 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

munica-tive man. He knew every-thing known by his 
passengers for the last twent}^ years, and if each suc- 
ceeding passenger did not learn it all, it was his own 
fault, for he was sure to hear it. 

"'Our voyage for the first one hundred miles Wds de- 
void of interest, being in the night. However, about 
daylight, I was awakened by oiur captain, to see some 
liistoric battle fields on the coast, but have forgotten 
their names. There is a history about nearly ever}i:liing 
and place in Spain. A little after daylight, we found 
ourselves in sight of Tangier, Airica. Our sliip did not 
land, but we saw the city from the bay — churches and 
towers and public buildings, and the view as we passed 
out, was that of a handsome but curious city. Leaving 
the African coast, we were soon between the two pillars 
of Hercules and into the Straits of Gibraltar. Here 
we were in view of three of the greatest fortifications in 
the world. The best known is, perhaps, Gilbraltar, 
and then comes the Moorish fortification, which is 
said to be the strongest defensive point, naturally, of 
any military post in existence. A little below these two 
is the Ceuta fortress of Spain. If the three should act 
in concert., the combined fleets of the world could not 
enter the Mediterranean. It woidd be a hard thing to 
accomplish even as against Gibraltar, the English hav- 
ing kept this point up to the highest standard of modem 
^^ari'are. She has two one hundred ton gitus that shoot 
through eighteen inches of solid steel, and through six 
or seven inches at the distance of ten miles. 

"Soon after passing out of the Straits, and having 
lost sight of ^Gib,' as the place is familiarly called, we 
entered the bay of Trafalgar, where Lord Xelson gained 



MALAGA TO LONDON. 153 

liis great Aactoiy over the combined fleets of France and 
Spain. Our captain pointed out the position of the 
French and Spanish, as well as that of the English, and 
showed us where Lord Xelson was killed. 

"lie related many amusing incidents of the battle, 
one of wliich is truly worth relating. He said: 'In one 
of the English sliips, a passing cannon ball struck a 
sailor and cut off one of his legs. In his agony, he 
called on a fellow soldier, an Irishman, to carry him to 
the cockpit. The sailor shouldered the wounded man 
and started, but before he had passed below, another 
ball took off the womided man's head. The Irishman, 
in the noise and confusion of battle, had not noticed 
this, but as he went below, he met one of the officers who 
asked liim where he was carrying that man. 'To the 
cockpit,' was the ready response. 'Yes,' said the officer, 
'but there is no use of that, his head is shot off.' *Ts 
that so,' said the Irishman, looking back over his 
shouldei-s, 'he told me it was Ms leg.' " 

''After leaving Trafalgar, we passed tiie city of Tiu-ifa. 
Here we coidd not land, as cholera was raging in the 
place. Our next stopping point was the ancient city of 
Cailiz. We were here for a day and night, and had the 
opportunity of taking a general xiew of the city, wliich 
we found to be clean and beautiful, with few indications 
of its great antiquity. It was founded by Hercules 
about eleven hundred years before Christ, and now has 
a population of 65.000 souls, though at one time it was 
much larger. 

"We proceeded from Cadiz to Lisbon, Portugal, the 
capital of the country, and a large town of about 280,000 
inhabitants. In the bav lav five English iron-clad war- 



154 JEFFKRSON DILLARD GOODPASTUKK. 

ships, constituting what is known as the Channel Fleet, 
each sliip manned ])y ahout eight hundred men. One 
of these ships brought the remains of Peahody to 
America, and another v^-as in the hom1)ardment of Alex- 
andria, and has in her side a dent, six or eight inelies 
deep, and as large as a lialf husliel, made by a cannon 
ball in that engagement. The Duke of Edinburg had 
just been appointed to the command of the fleet, and 
the King of Portugal dined with him on the day of 
our arrival. They had quite a big time of it. We re- 
mained here five days, saw the church in which Colum- 
bus was married, still in good preservation. Lisbon is 
a city of hills. Here our ship took on two hundred 
bales of cork. 

■'From Lisbon we proceeded to Vigo, Spain, a dirty 
little town with a fishy smell, on one of the finest bays in 
the world. Here we took on 460 boxes of eggs for 
l^ondon. There is a company of Americans at work ni 
the bay here, mostly from Pliiladelphia, with the best 
divers to 1)e had, attempting to recover the gold and 
silver in the galleys that were sunk about 160 years ago. 
They have found one of the ships and recovered some 
logwood, and are expecting to get the gold. They are 
to give a certain per cent of all the money recovered to 
the Spanish government, if they do not forget to tell the 
government that they have found any. 

'"We had so often been told of the dangei-s of the IJay 
of Biscay that we left A'igo in some dread, but we 
ci-ossed it in safety. The good captain — to quiet oiu' 
nerves, I suppose, told us about, and showed us wJiiie 
crossing the place, where, a few yciirs ago. a nuiid,or .u' 
Lnglish warships were caught in a st(U'i)i aiul one ot 



MALAGA TO LONDON. 155 

tiiem upset and went down witli 500 men on board, 
everyone of whom perished. In pa.ssing down the Eng- • 
hsli Channel, it was a. mattci- of great interest to us, and 
to John in particuhir, to look at some half dozen or more 
wrecks. Of some, tlic smoke stacks were visible, and of 
others, onh' the masts. These wrecks were suggestive." 

They landed safely at London, and carried their stock 
to Mills' stable, four or five miles from the place of land- 
ing, and two or three from where they expected to 
embark. While unloading at the docks, a slick artist 
relieved Judge Goodpasture of a fine gold watch, which 
distressed liim very much, it having been a gift from his 
wife. Jv'othing was afterward heard of it. 

Judge Goodpasture thus describes the section in which 
they had stopped in one of liis letters: "We are here 
in the black bottom of London, in fact, nearly all of 
London is black bottom. It is certainly the most god- 
forsaken, roiigh city in the world. There is, howevci-, 
including the House of I'arliament, the ])anks. etc., a 
portion of the city about as large as JSFashville, thai Is 
grand beyond description: the balance of the city is as 
bad as you can imagine it. We stayed four days in tlie 
neighborhood of ]\[oody and Sankey's Tabernacle. 1 
reckon a more abandoned place j^ou never saw: poor 
jjeyond description, and wicked beyond belief." 

They remained in London one week, giving their 
stock a good rest. a.s they had l)een fourteen days in 
reaching London, having sailed about 1,700 miles, and 
on i\Iarch 3rd eml)arked for Xew York on the steamsliip 
Assyrian Monarch. It was raining when they sailed, 
but no wind, and a smooth sea. On Sunday night, 
March Tth, they bad religious services on board. This 



156 JKFFERSON DILLAKD GOODPASTURK. 

is required on all Eng-lisli boats, weather ])ermitlinfi. 

'J'he duty is imposed on the captain, but he is allowed to 

oali on any minister who happens to be on board, and 

is willing I0 conduct the services. 

Judge Goodpasture thus writes home 
Storm at Sea. , ... i .e - • i < j? 

desenbmg ms nrst sight ot a geniune 

storm at sea: "About five o'clock on the morning of 
March 8th, I was awakened from my shunber by a ter- 
rible noise and rolling of the ship. The most of the 
passengers were thrown from their beds. I put on my 
clothes as best I could, and looking out foimd that a 
tierce storm was raging. The captain was on the bridge 
at the time, and was unable to get down for four hoiu's. 
He held on by main strength, and a part of the time 
had liimself lashed to the bridge, fearing that he would 
be washed overboard. He was drenched ^vith spray. 
The wind blew at the rate of sixty miles an hour for 
eleven hours, and at times even harder. The sails were 
not only blown to pieces, but entirely away, by the ter- 
rilic force of the gaJe. I looked out thi'ough a port hole 
at the raging waters. Xo man can describe a storm at 
sea. It is unlike anytliing else. The wind seemed to 
lift the waters up, and it looked more like a dreadful 
snow storm, the spray being blo^vn in all direetions, than 
anything of wliich I can think. The waves looked hke 
great mountains, parti}' obscured by fog or snow, and 
the ship careened thirty degress. The officers and 
siiilors throughoiit the entire stonn were cool — the fii'st 
officer in particular, who ijididged in many most a,mus- 
ing anecdotes, and tales of past experiences in sailing 
over nearly all the waters of the known world. In order 
that we might know when the time of real danger 



STORM AT SEA. 157 

arrived, he told this — that he once had a verj' timid 
minister on board dm-ing an imasnally na^ty spell of 
weather. To qniet his nerves, he called attention to 
the profanity of the sailors, who were having to work 
on a wet, slippery deck, and in a cold drenching spray, 
and told Mm that as long as their profanity continued, 
lie need have no fear — it would cease at once in case of 
danger. Xow, the weather gi'ew worse, and at last 
reached the proportions of a gale. ^Many of the passen- 
gers were frightened, and ^\'ith the minister at their 
head, assembled in the dining room for prayers. The 
minister opened the meeting. While he was in the 
midst of an eloquent appeal, some of the sailors passed 
along the deck ^^olently cursing everytliing in sight. 
'Thank God/ said he, 'the sailors still swear.' 

"After the storm was over, we found that some of our 
machinei*}' was broken, and our ship was standing still, 
it took four hours to repair it." 

These storms are very wear}dng and bruising to stock, 
but seldom result fatally. The jacks and jennets were 
put in stalls, their heads facing the center and not the 
sides of the vessel. Heavy strips were nailed to the 
floor, about two feet apart, so as to give them a footing. 
Before leaving Spain, they had made a nimiber of swings 
to hold the weak and injured on their feet. On this 
trip they never allowed the stock to lay down, beca.use 
they had been told they would grow so stiff that it wt>uld 
be impossible for them to stand afterward. This was a 
great mistake. If allowed to lay for a reasonable length 
of time, there is no such effect, but they are greatly 
rested by it. 

They shipped this time and subsequently, except their 



158 JKFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

last shipment, between decks. This will do in winter 
or earl}- spring when had weather may reasonablj' be 
expected, but a more serious mistaJce could hardly be 
made in summer. They once suffered a loss of over 
fno thousand dollars* Avorth of jacks in a few days' time 
that was directly attributa.ble to sliipping in this place. 
If they had been shipped on top of the deck, unques- 
tionably all would have been saved. It was, however, 
a very natural mistake. All the insurance companies 
charged higher rates on top, as in case of a severe storm 
all might be washed overboard. But the danger of a 
severe storm in summer is very small — we have ncAer 
seen one at that season that would have been at all 
hiizardous. 

During the prevalence of a storm, like the one above 
described by Judge Goodpasture, the stock must be 
watched ver}' closely to avoid accident. The stalls are 
built up in front of the jacks, ^\^th strong oak plank 
or other stout wood, reaching a little above the chest. 
The feed troughs are fastened to the upper planks. The 
jack is tied to the posts on either side, which holds him 
in position and prevents his interfering with his neigh- 
bor. On this trip, the}' had several thrown entirely 
over the front part of the stall and out into the passage , 
way. When tliis happens, the immediate presence of 
the attendant is necessary to release the animars head. 

This was a hard time on John, but he was faithful luid 
attentive. ]\Iore or less sea-sick through it all, losing a 
gTeat deal of sleep, constant watching and working, the 
depressing effects of bad dreams and feare for the safety 
of the vessel, made the voyage a pretty tough experience 
for him. 



NEW YORK AND HOME. 159 

Tlicy at last reached Xew York, hav- 

New York jup- ' been fourteen davs in sailing 
and Home. ^ _ . 

from ]\ralaga to London and six- 
teen days from the latter to Xew York. This, 
with dela.js at different places, together with six 
days by rail from Xew York to Xashville, ^\•a.s a very 
long and trying trip on both man and beast. They made 
the journey \ntliout further accident than the loss of 
one animal, the fine black jennet owned by Dr. Plimilee. 
They had agi*eed to bring Ms two or three head along 
with theirs. They regretted this loss very much, bo- 
cause she belonged to their friend, and was, besides, a 
very superior aninu^l. 

Judge CTOodpa.sture came home on a passenger train 
from Xew York, and prepared to receive the stock by 
the time of their arrival. He had a very interesting in- 
terview published in the American, and had awakened a 
good deal of interest in the public. Dr. Plumlee had 
gotten home some time previously, having declined to 
buy in Poitou on account of the very high price. 

The stock arrived in Xashville the latter part of 
March, but rather late for the market, which only really 
covers the period from January to April inclusive. 
After their long journey, it was impossible to get them 
in first-class condition in time for the spring demand. 
Still, several of them were sold at profitaljle figures, and 
the others were carried over for the following year. One 
of the veiT best of the lot was a jack named Alfonso, pur- 
chased from the royal breeding stables at Cordova. He 
was a large steel gray jack, 15:} hands high, and the best 
of the variety they ever saw, before or since. As said 
before, the Andalusian was not the popidar jack for 
this country. 



CHAPTER XIV. 

Judge Goodpasture busied liimself 

for the next few mouths watchinc: the 
Importation. '^ 

jack market, attending to liis various 

real estate deals and making a trip to Sparta and the 

Mountain District. 

He was not satisfied with his first importation of jacks. 
He became more than ever convinced that black jacks 
could be found in Europe, and the sales he had made of 
the gray, made it certain that an importation of black 
ones would biing gi'eat profit and credit as well. A 
second importation was, therefore, determined upon, 
and arrangements were made to go for them during the 
summer, so as to have them in good fix for the winter 
and spring trade. 

All was ready, and he and his son left Xashville on 
the 7th of July, 1886. Their faithful groom, John 
Terry, \^'as left beliind because of the expense. It was 
not then known how much travel woidd have to be 
done to find the kind of jacks desired, but the Judge 
left with the determination to keep looking until they 
were found. 

He seems to have been a bit sad in leaving on this 

ti'ip. He thus MTites his wife from Xew York, under 

date of July 9, 1886: 

'"The day we left home was one of the 

^"^ *** saddest of my life. We got to Louia- 

Ncw York. „ -^ ■,..-,, ,., ^ 

ville at 2 p.m., and staid there until i . 

I was fe^Ung gloomy, and in the evening late, I went 

down to the bank of the river, to nearly the same spot 



TRIP TO NEW YORK. i6l 

where 1 sat upon a rock thirty-six years ago and watched 
some fishermen. I found a log at tliis place and sitting 
down on it remained there for an hour. I thought of 
nearly everything I had done for the last thirty-six years, 
and where I Mould be at the eud of thirty-six years more. 
But few people at tliat time would know I ever lived, 
perchance some might pass through a gra.ve yai-d and 
point to the mossy headstone and say 'I knew that man 
when I was a hoy.' Such is life. 

"We left Louisville at 7 p.m. It was not long until 
1 heard the conductor call out Frankfort. I looked out 
in the dark at Kentucky's capital. I never saw it be- 
fore. 1 went back and tried to sleep, but I could not. 
After a little I heard the conductor cry out Lexington. 
I looked out again to see if I could recognize the place. 
I was here exactly thirty years ago. Everything 
in an instant came to my mind as vividly as if it had 
been but yet>terday. I had Just helped nojuinate 
{iuchanan for President, and was going home fidl of 
political enthusiasm. What a change since then!"' He 
closes this unusually sad letter by saying: ''Remember 
your inperfect husband in your prayers." 

This was a feeling very rare to Judge Goodpasture on 
those tri])s. He had the hajjpy faculty of dismissing 
from liis mind all thoughts of bitsiness left behind, and 
entering v/ith enthusiasm into the undertaking on hand. 
He was an ideal traveling companion. In the best of 
humor at all times, rarely groAving tired, never fretted, 
always ready to agree on what to do or where to go— - 
a thing oftentimes hard for travelers to do; always well, 
and an adaptability to places and conditions e(|ualed by 
few men. He was soon acquainted with those with 
II 



l62 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

whom he wa^; thrown, and had a way of making every- 
one like him. 

Tliey flailed for London ])eT 8. S. 
Sails for Lvdian Monarch, Julv 10. The voy- 

London. i ^ i 

age was not an altogetlier pleasant one. 

For the iii'st live or six days they were in a deiLse fog. 
This almost precluded sleep on account of the incessant 
blowing of the fog horn, and besides, it was unconi- 
fort<ably dangerous. Indeed, the steamer did run into 
the Alice Frances, of Boston, off the coast of Newfound- 
land, about two o'clock at night but with no more seri- 
ous consequences than a very 1)ad scare and an uncom- 
t'ortable feeling foi- the balance of the night. They 
never knew what became of the other boat. 

The steamshi}) fare was rather bad. and was made 
much \^'orse on account of a somewhat peculiar circum- 
stance. Having about .550 large bullocks on board, il 
was necessary to take the mos.t northerly passage in order 
to keep in a cool atmosphere. While the steamer lay 
m New York, innumerable flies had congregated on her. 
attracted by the great numl)er of cattle on hoard. By 
the time they reached the coast of Newfoundland, the 
wind ^\as blowing the blasts of December or Januaiw. 
This did not agree with the flics, and they were (lro])ping 
about everywhere and in everything. 

They sto]tped only a ^hort time in London, and rait 
down to the famous seacoast Avatering place, Thighton, 
and took the trsiin from there to New Haven — thenct' 
bv lioat to Dieppe, and from there by rail to Paris. 

Judge Goodpasture writes as follows 

Bf'Ehtori to P»ris, .. i^. l t ^t j. • ,. < .i-i i 

*• of thij^ port of the tnp: '•Aittrr a day 

nud night in LobcIop. we left ,qt U f.nt foi- Briditoth 



PARIS TO BARCELONA. 163 

arrmng there at 2 p.m. We saw most of tlie city. It 
has 128,400 population, and at least one thousand hotels 
and first-class hoarding houses. It is on the English 
Channel and is a great summer re.sort for the aristocracy; 
is handsome in the extreme, and was the summer home 
of George III. We ^-isited liis palace and private thea- 
ter. They look as new as if just built last year, l^eing 
kept in perfect repair. They are located in the heart 
of the city ,and are surrounded by a large and handsome 
park. Tliis property has all Ijeen bought by the city 
and is kept as a place of amusement. 

'"We reached Paris tliis morning at 11 o'clock, had 
(nir breakfast, gave out our wasliing and then nearly 
walked ourselves to death looking at the city. We got 
in our wash by dinner time (6.30 p.m.). all right. WiUie 
and Mr. Bernard have gone out to-night, but T am 
going to bed as soon as I finish this letter. 1 slept none 
last night. We crossed the Channel and no one could 
sleep. There were more sea-sick people than I ever saw 
l)efore all put together. Taking it all together, we have 
had a pretty rough voyage. People are wearing over- 
coats here — it is quite cool and wet." 

From Paris tliey took the train tor 

Pans to Parcelona, Spain, intending to go 

Barcelona. , . ■ , • i i 

through without stopping; but when 

thev arrived at Ximes, one of the extreme southern 
towns of France, they found that they had missed con- 
nection, and would have to lay over about three hours. 
Thny arrived ju.st before daylight, and concluded to 
pass away the time in looking at the town. They went 
first to the city market, always a place of especial in- 
terest to judge Goodpasture. He enjoyed seeing the 



164 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

kinds of people and the odd and interesting ebaraoters 
found there, as well as the variety of things for sale. 
These southern markets are extremely rich in variety of 
fruitv«. Ximos is aii old Roman town with many curious 
and well preserved specimens of the works of the an- 
cients. 

They had breakfast at a coffee stand near the depot. 
It consisted of a very good cup of coffee, and the de- 
ligtful bread to be found in every part of France, which, 
on account of its shape, the Judge called ram's horn, 
lie pronounced it one of the best breakfasts he had eaten 
in Europe, so it is to be supposed he was hungry. 

They went, to tlie station a little early to take the 
train, but did not have to wait as long as they had ex- 
pected. They hurriedly got aboard in a compartment 
with plenty of room, the Judge lighted his hickory pipe 
and settled back to enjoy the beauty of the scenerv of 
this old country that has been in a high state of culti- 
vation since licfore the days of Christ. 

When they had gone about, one hundred miles, a 
guard came along to examine tickets, and informed 
them, \>y ]nany signs and much jabbering,- that they 
were in the wrong train. iVs a matter of fact, they had 
taken a train going straight back to Paris. There was 
nothing to do l)ut to get off at the first station and take 
the next train foi- Xiines, which they did. When they 
got back, the station agent, who diA-ined the trouble the> 
had gotten into, took the Judge by the hand and led him 
over to one of tlie several raih'oad tracks and put his 
hand on it, pointing out at same time the direction they 
were to take, lie then took out the Judge's watch and 
t^howed liim the exact time it would leave. They had 



PARIS TO BARCELONA. 1 65 

to wait for some time, and witliout especially desiring it, 
they were given another opportunity of sight seeing in 
the ancient city of Ximes. 

Their instructions had been so exact and so impos- 
sible to misunderstand, that they boarded the right tram 
next time and had no further trouble imtil they arrived 
at Cerbere, the last station in France, and near the 
Spanish frontier, where they arrived at eleven o'clock 
at night. As they had eaten nothing since morning, 
they had supper before retinng. and a very bad one it 
wae. 

They left at five o'clock the next morning, enteiing 
a long tunnel immediately on leaving the station. 
When they emerged, they were in Portl)on, Spam, 
wliich, like Cerbere, is a custom station, and where the 
baggage was examined. Here a very beautiful young 
Spanish woman entered their compartment and rode 
with them t.o Barcelona. She afforded them much en- 
tertainment. When they grew tired of looking at the 
magnilicent mountain scenery on the outside, they had 
sceneiy quit-e as attractive with \\hich to regale their 
eyes on the inside; and when they discovered to a cer- 
tainty that she did not understand English, they enjoyed 
discussing her conduct and appearance. It afforded 
diversion for the balance of the trip, but more tlum once 
she looked rather sus])i(ioiis as to the subject matter 
of their coiivei*sation. 

On amval at Barcelona, after a journey of forty-two 
hours, in addition to stops, they went to the Hotel Cen- 
tral. It is not recommended by Baedeker, but so far as 
their experience went, it was the most satisfactory hotel 
in all respects at which they ever stopped, either on this 



I66 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

or subsequent trips, in Spain or elsewhere. The charges 
were quite moderate, only eight pesetas, or a dollar and 
sixty cents per day, which included breakfasi and din- 
ner, the only meals served in continental hotels. An 
excellent restaurant was attached to it, at which tiiey 
obtained delicious bread and cott'ee on Ih'st rising, the 
hotel breakfast being served from 11 to r<? m. 

The}' at once began a search for an 

iscovers an interpreter, but without success. As 
Interpreter. 

they had little Spanish money, they 

concluded to try and find their banlc correspondent and 
draw some. Their bank here was Vidal Quadras ller- 
uianos. After finding the address in the directory, at the 
hotel, they sectu'ed a city map and from it succeeded in 
ihiding the )>lace, but no bank was in sight. They looked 
in vain in every direction, although at the addre<^s given. 
In their perplexity, they showed the address to a plain 
looking citizen standing idly near. He looked carefully 
at the address and then a,t tliem, and to their amaze- 
ment said: '"Do you speak English?" They replied 
that they used to indulge in that greatest of luxurifS. 
but had not had the pleasure for some days past outsule 
of conversations with each other. He then showed 
them the bank, which turned out to be on the third floor 
of the building, directly in front of them, but with no 
sign to indicate its location. They asked their new 
found English speaking friend to wait for them, whicii 
he consented to do. After transacting their business in 
the baidv. they rejoineil liim — fomid that he was a 
Frenchman who had been to New Orleans and there 
learned English, but had lived for the last fifteen years in 
Barcelonia. He was a coal agent, and had never acted as 



l)ISCOVERS AN IXTKKPKHTKK. 167 

iiii interpreter and did not know one single thing about 
jacks, bnt he said he eonld talk, and knew a man that 
eould tell them all about jack stock. They engaged 
him. and thus, chanced the first employment of John 
liives. who became the most famous interpreter in all 
Spain, and whose seiTices were often engaged by cable 
from the United States in order to be the first to obtain 
them. Xo man has CA'er assisted in the purchase of more 
jacks for export to America. 

They went at once to the stables of the man who 
knew all about jack stock; found that he had gone to 
his home at Sabadell ajid that they could see Mm the 
next day (Sunday), as it was to be a great feast day there, 
and if they waited until the following day they might 
miss him, he being a man whose business carried him all 
over northern Spain. His nauie was Jose San Marti. 
and he was the biggest mule dealer in Spain, importing 
large numbers from France. He looked to be about 
>ixty. very erect, with piercing eyes, veiy handsome, and 
t'xtremely intellectual in appearance. They were kindly 
received by him at his home, and he agreed to go \nth 
them on the following Wednesday and show them jacks 
lor the consideration of fotir dollars for each head pur- 
chased, and all his expenses. They agreed to his ternii?. 
His intellectual appearance was not decei\ang. He was 
sharp and shrewd, and the compensation paid him was 
;i mere bagatelle to what he made oiit of them. They 
never discove^red this imtil divulged by the interpreter 
subsequently, and it wo\ild probably never have come to 
light had not he and the interpreter fallen out A\-ith each 
other over a diA^sion of the swag. 



CHAPTKR XV. 

After agreeing to the terms of tiie 

The Bull T 1 ri J J. 

^. ^ commissioner, Judee Goodiiastiire 

Fight. *" ^ 

had notliing fnrtlier to do in tiie 
town, and devoted liiniself to an observance of the fes- 
tivities of tlie occasion. It was a glorious Sunday, their 
(irst. on this trip in Spain. The sun slione down just 
enough to give beauty to the shady parks and evergreen 
forests. A gentle ]\Iechterranean breeze fanned the 
cheeks, and made the growing crops in the fields around 
to waive and ripple as the bosom of a lake. The ther- 
mometer was not higher than at an American mountain 
resort, and the atmosphere looked perfectly clear, until 
one turned toward the tall blue peak of the Montsen'at. 
A great day it was to the people of the little city of 
Sabadell — the annual feast of the town. n)ixed up, as 
everything else is, with the churcli. The streets were 
gaily decorated with evergreens, flags, flowers, sauey 
looking peasant girls, and high bred dames. The 
{)roud seignor, with his broad sombrero, stalked the 
streets in all his imagined grandeur. The great organ 
in the old cathedral was pealing forth its grand notes, 
accompanied by a choir of trained voices and a band of 
fifty or sixty instniments. The multitude had assem- 
\Aed at the church, and were going through the exercises 
t here in the forenoon so as to be in time for the afternoon 
exercises at the Plaza do Toros, and the evening enter- 
tainments at the numerous ball rooms. 



The bull fight. 169 

A bull fight was to take place at 4.30 in the afternoon, 
and to insure themselves good seats they went do,vn 
at three. 

The Plaza de Toros here, built upon the plan of the 
Coliseum of Eome, is an immense circular building with 
seats and boxes extending entirely around, and in the 
inside a ring for the combatants, l-'rom the top of 
the building that day. lloated an immense Spanish flag, 
and around it a tliousand lesser ones. 

The crowd had ah-eady Ijegun to assemble, except in 
the reserved boxes at the top. and was composed of both 
sexes and all degrees of humanity. The justly famous 
small Ijov was there, .selhng bottled soda water, fans. 
])rogrammes, etc. Buying one of the latter they found 
that they were likely to see an uncommonly interesting 
battle. The famous ^lunchao, of ^Madi'id. was to fight 
tliat day — so was Alaban, of Valencia: Eocher, of 
Seville; Lopez, of Madrid, and half a dozen others, more 
or less known to the ring and to fame. 

The crowd soon assembled, and the private l)oxes, es- 
pecially, shone resplendent with brilliantly jeweled 
senoritas. and the most sparkling and brilliant of 
all the jewels were their jet black eye.s, made brighter 
still by immediate expectation imd suppressed ex- 
citement. 

At precisely 4.30 o'clock, the president, who was the 
mayor of the town, entered his private l)ox, the band 
began to jday, the men to yell and the women to wave 
their handkerchiefs and fans. The president gracefully 
bowed his acknowledgments. Fans seem to be quite 
as necessarv there as they were to the Roman ladies at 
the o-ladatoria] comliats in ancient times. 



170 jEFFKRSON DILLAKD GOODPASTUKli. 

Everytliing then being ready, the trumpet sounded, 
and the wliole bull fighting company marched into the 
ring, glittering in their gorgeous costumes. How grace- 
ful and majestic they looked, these bull fighters, as the}' 
passed by in their close fitting suits, trimmed in gold 
and beads. As soon as they had passed in front of the 
president, he threw the key of the toril (the cell of the 
bull) to a man dressed in black, wearing an enonnous 
black phtme in his hat. and mounted upon a spirited 
Aral)ian bar!) horse, that reared and plunged to the great 
delight of the crowd. These horses are trained to thus 
act, and it gives a fine exhibition of graceful horseman- 
ship. When thrown down, he endea^'ored to catch the 
key in his hat, but was prevented by the plung-ing of 
his horse. 

A curious part of the calvacade was four immeust 
Norman horses harnessed together, wearing plumes on 
their heads, and used for the purpose of dragging the 
slain from the field of battle. The different performers 
now took their places in the ring, and the door of the 
toril was thrown open. The public curiosity to see the 
first rush out of the bull was intense, as none knew 
whether he would behave well or ill. and they judge 
there of his character by the manner in which he be- 
haves upon first entering the ring. 

The bull, an immense red one, fresh from the Jarama 
mountains, then rushed into the ring. He had long 
sharp horns like the native breeds in Texas and Mexico, 
an exceedingly thick neck, raised far above the level of 
his back, and a defiant look. Every movement showetl 
great power and activit\-. No one A\ho has not seen 
theise bulls, raised in iheir natural state, high up in the 



THK BULL fiGHf. 



171 



Inoimtains^ caji imagine their ferocity. Au enraged lion 
would not appear more dangerous. Thev are very ex- 
pensive, costing the management four or five hundred 
dollai"s each. 

On entering, the first object that presented itself be- 
ing a man, known in ring parlance as a matadore, he 
charged him. The man saved himself by dextrously 
jumping the wall around the ring. These bull fighters 
are all athletes, and can run and jump like those in an 
American circus. Other matadores approached waving 
their red flags, and the bull charged them but without 
result. Soon he espied the mounted picadores. These 
are men on horseback, and armed with long poles, in 
the ends of which arc fixed sharp spears. They wear the 
l»road brLmmcd ThessaJian hat; their legs are encased in 
iron and leather, wliich give a heavy look, and the right 
one, ^^'llieh is usually presented to the bull, is the better 
protected. 

The bull chargcxl the first one he came to, and the 
pic^dore, holding the lance in the i-ight hand, turned 
his horse to the left and received the oiLslaught of the 
bull on the point of his weapon. Tliis did not stop him, 
but possibly only added renewed fury, for he bmied 
liis horn completely in the liip of the horse, raising liim 
from the ground, and pitching horse and rider in a mass 
upon the arena. A cloxid of dust rose from the imper- 
fectly spriidvled ring, the matadores rushed up waving 
their red flags to attract away the bull, while others 
hastily pulled the poor picadore from under the horse 
and cai'ried him from the ring. "Bravo, bravo toro," 
shouted the multitude, and women and men lost a sense 
of existence in the excitement of the moment. The bull 



172 JEI^IfERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURfi. 

was now charging anything in reach, and the horse that 
lie had just brought to the ground was raised to his 
feet, a picadore placed upon his back and he was ridden 
forward again, the blood shooting out in a spurt at even' 
step. "Isn't tliis tiling terrible?" said Judge Good- 
pasture, and he began to light his pipe, his universal 
recourse in case of any unpleasantness. 

Again the bull attacked and received a fearful gash m 
the neck from the picadore, but planting his horns full 
in the horse, he raised liim liigh off the ground, pitching 
the picadore over the ring wall and letting the horse fall 
a dead i)east, a vanquished foe. in the ring. He attacked 
the next he could reach, and again with his terrific force 
piled man and Ijeast on the ground. The rider was 
assisted from the ring, the hoi-se raised and another 
rider placed upon his back. The poor horses were 
all blindfolded, and when this one wds raised and ridden 
forth to the awful encounter, his entrails were seen to be 
lianging down almost to the ground. 

A large Xewfoimdland dog, led, we suppose, by bad 
com]>a.ny down to the ring, and by curiosity into it, mak- 
ing no war upon any one, and intending none, greatly 
to his sur|3rise, suddenly foimd liimself pitehed ten feet 
into the air. It was his death warrant. 

Otlier horses were attackcxl and their ridei-s unhorsed, 
and soon the scene of battle was indeed a gory one. 
Dead horses lay about the ring, others liad woimds 
through wliich the blood gushed or their entrails pro- 
truded, and the bull still fought game and looked more 
defiant than ever. Here the tnimpet sounded, and the 
first act of the Ijloody drama was over. 

The next act, that of the ehulos, is shori and interest- 



THE BULL FIGHT. 173 

ing. The picadores leave the ring. The sole object of 
the chulos, as the}- are termed, is to enrage the bull to 
the highest pitch. They entered the ring bearing shafts 
with an-ows in the end, and nia.rched directly toward the 
bull, pointing the shafts at him. These arrows have 
bai'bs to prevent theii" coming out when once stuck. 
One of the chulos advanced and just as the bull bounded 
forward and stopped to toss Mm, he stuck the arrow into 
lus neck aud dextrously jiunped to one side. These 
arrows were pro^^ded ^nth crackers, which, by means of 
a detonating powder, explode the moment they are 
affixed to the neck. The agony of the infuriated animal 
on this occasion made him bound and jimip high in the 
air, greatly to the delight of the audience. To the bull, 
it was an ever present, imseen, unattackable foe, aud his 
fury soon knew no bounds. 

The trumpets again sounded, the arena was clea.rtd 
for the third act, and the great espada, the star of tlu' 
(•ompany, the executioner, stood before his com1)atant. 
On entering the ring, he addressed the president, t.ln-ow 
Ins ca]) to the grouud. dropped to his knees and swore to 
do liis duty. In his right hand, he held a long straight 
Toledo blade, and with his left, he waved a red tlag. 
He thus enticed the IjuU, who charged him, and he 
((uickly jumped aside. He did tliis again and agaiu. 
when at last ho got him in the desired position. When 
The bull then jumped forwad to gore Mm. the sword was 
buried to the hilt just between the shoulders and near 
the left oue. The sword remained in his body but the 
bull fought on. Finally the espada succeeded in draw- 
ing it out, and buried it again in nearly the same place. 
The bull couched once or twice, fell to his knees and 



174 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

then to the ground and immediately expired, the blade 
having pierced the heart. 

How furiously the peojjie cheered then I Hats, cigars, 
fans, handkercliiefs, and all the property wliich "Wem- 
mick terms portable, was showered into the ring. The 
bull fighter, the great man of the day, gracefully bowed 
to the crowd. The four big Norman horees then en- 
tered, and commenced the operation of dragging the 
dead from the field, leaving in their wake one broad 
track of blood. 

Thus ended the first fight, and, as those that followed 
^\•ere but re]:)etitions in the main of the first, we shall not 
attempt to describe them. 

After three bulls had been killed, the fourth and last 
proved to be one of unusual ferocity and power. He 
had killed all the horses entered. The mob cried lui 
more; the management refused. The musicians stiirte<l 
to leave the place and a row occurred in which walking 
canes and fists played an important part. At length 
the mob began to tear up the seats and to throw them 
into the ring. Quiet and order was restored by a squad 
of gendannes anned with drawn Winchester riiles. 
These gendarmes or civil guards rank higher and ha^e 
greater powers, than police; will shooi when necessity 
seems to require it. and ^nll preseiwe good order at any 
price. There could be no \a\\ or order in Spain witli- 
out them, l-'rance has the same system. 

Such were their first obsenations at a Ijuil ring, 
which, let critics say what they may, is the sight of 
Spain. Its bnitality is undeniable, and its place ought 
to be with a less civilized people. It was introduced by 
the Moove, and ho s withstood the ih^iience of "the piou^ 



THE BULL FIGHT. 175 

Isabella, the Catholic, and sundved the bulls of the 
Pope, and ma}- be counted a permanent and fixed sport 
of the countr}'. One nsit is enough to satisfy even the 
most curious American, whose humanity has been edu- 
cated more than his cnielty. 

Th<3 Judge went to one of the numerous balls that 
night. It was in an immense pa^^,lion. and decorated 
regardless of aJl expense and trouble. There were a 
large number of private boxes, hung \nth costly curtains 
and laces, for those who wished to see, but did not care 
to mix Avith the multitude or to dance. The crowd was 
crusliing, the dancing attractive; many lovely costumes; 
the women 01 course beautifid; plenty of Ught, good 
music, and doubtless much love maldng. It lasted until 
4 a.m., when the crowd dispersed, for many had co go 
to Monday morning's confession at 6. 

The Judge, of course, left for the hotel early, and on 
retiring, tried long and hai"d to banish from his mind 
the cruel barbarity of the afternoon's sport. 



CHAPTER XVI. 

Th.o Judge retumed to Barcelona 
eai'ly the next morning, and had 
nothing to do for two or three days but h>ok about the 
city. Barcelona is the only really modem to\An in 
Spain, broad streets, well built busine^i blocks and 
handsome residences. It is veiy ancient, but has under- 
gone a renaissance, and now jiartakes more of the French 
than the Spanish in api)earance. It had a population at 
this time of something more than 350,000 souls. A 
magnificent alameda I'uns from the bay clear througli 
the city, dividing it into two pai'ts. This and the quay 
were greatly appreciated by hi]n, because he could always 
iind his way back to the hotel when he came upon either 
of these two points. He mentions tbis fact more than 
once in his letters, and congratulated himself on escap- 
ing Ms Cordova and ^lalaga experiences. 

Some of the streets are models, not only very broad, 
but lined witli three or four i-ows of sycamore shade 
trees, and are kept perfectly clean by sprinkling and 
sweeping. 

There is a permanent circiLS here which gives per- 
formances every night, including that of Smiday, gen- 
eral admission being lifteen cents. lie attended tliis 
one night and enjoyed it. The jokes of the clown 
were in ])antomime to him. but his imagination su})- 
plied the deiiciency. 

He and his son had given out their Avash during the 
morning, and when they returned to their rooms in the 



KUVIXG JACKS. 177 

evening, one of the hotel clerks, who spoke a little Eng- 
lish, came up ven- gravely, bearing one of their shirts. 
••Wliat i-s the matter/" said the Judge, "we want it 
washed.'" '"Yes. yes," said the boy, "but look, it is 
broken," and pointed to a small rent in the garment. 
"All right,"' said the Judge, "go ahead, and have it 
washed and bring us back the pieces."" To thi.s he 
agreed and retired. 

Thev i'oujid no iacks in the ini- 
Buying Jacks. ,.' ... ,' 

mediate vicinity 01 Barcelona, but on 

going out into the country from twenty to one hundred 
miles they found the very thing for which they liad been 
so long looking. At GrannoUers. they bought a mag- 
niiicent five year old. IH hand jack called Jumbo, wliich 
was aftei-fl-ards sold for $3,000.00, and they secured him 
at a figure thej- were never afterwards a])le to duplicate. 
They also juirchased fine sp'ccimens at Vich, at Agua 
Fria. (Jerona and elsewhere. Although this is the home 
of ilie Cat.alonian jack, they rarely found more tlian 
three or four at any one place, and were unable to bu\-. 
a.s a rule, more than one or two of sufficient merit to 
import, from a single owner. They would sometimes 
find these jacks on the railroad but often they had to 
take a conveyance and drive some miles into the countr\-. 
Purchases cannot well be made without two men to 
assist — an inter] >reter to tnlk and a commissioner to find 
the stock. 

They made Bareolona headquarters, at which [)oint 
they received their mail, and ra<!iated tlu'ough the sur- 
rounding country. The finest jack purchased on tliis 
trip was one known there as "The King of Jacks,"" 
Iwught near Vich, and the finest specimen of his race 
12 



IjH JEFFERSON DIIXARD GOODPASTURE. 

they had seen iij) to that time. He was a model iu forjii 
and color, aljont fifteen handb^ one incli liigh. They 
would have preferred him larger. He had won several 
))rizes in tlieir local sliows, and had never been beaten. 
In tliis lot were also Panlito. IVacock and Monarch, 
that became famous afterwards in different states of 
America. 

AVhen they had bought about 
eighteen, tlie interpreter, Rives, and 
W. H. Goodpasture, made a flying trip to Majorca, aji 
island in the middle of the Mediterranean, not i^o much 
to purchase as to see wluit was to be had there, as no 
American importer had ever visited it; and they had 
long heard vague rumors of their fine mules and jacks. 
The trip was made by boat from Barcelona, leaving 
al)out ten o'clock in the morning and arriving early the 
next morning in Palma, the capital of the island. On 
arrival, they stopped at the Fonda La Balear, the leading 
hotel of the place, which proved to 1)e most excellent 
and cheap, and located in the center of the city. 

Here they met ]\Iazantini, the most successful bull 
lighter in all Spain. He is an Italian, and differs from 
olher espadas, in that he drives the sword into the head, 
just I>ehind the frotal bone and penetrates tlie brain. 
He had fought in Palma the day lief ore. Everyone 
looked on him with the greatest admiration — he was the 
beau ideal of the populace wherever he appeared. This 
iidulation seems to have had some effect, as he mod- 
estly told ^h. Goodpasture, after an introduction, that 
he was the greatest espada who ever entered a bull ring. 
He makes from fifty to seventy-five thousand dollai-s 
each summer season. There are no bull fights in winter. 



MAJORCA. 179 

They employed as commissioner to show theni the 
stock of tlie isUtnd, one Francisco Fortesa, who was after- 
wards cmphjyed ])y a number of Americans in imi)orting. 
Tiiey drove all over the island, measured and priced 
jacks, and looked at a most lovely country. The people 
depend largely on irrigation, but a richer or more fertile 
spot can scarcely be found in Spain. The export of 
nuts, principally almonds, is enormous. Tliis delight- 
ful nut, hulled and parched with a little salt, is to be 
found generally on the hotel tables of luirope, ^\hile 
pickled olives are never absent. 

There is not very much on the island to attract visitors 
who are not drawn there l)y business. The surface of 
the country, the towns and the people, are nearly iden- 
tical with those in Catalonia. A great deal of corn i^ 
j-aised but purely as a second crop, wheat or something 
of that sort being grown on the ground first. The val- 
leys are veiy pretty, ])eing planted in regular to\\>^ of 
trees siich as the almond, orange or olive; and the ground 
being covered with beans (a very large variety, used foi' 
feeding stock entirely), (M»rn or alfalfa. ]ireserits a verv 
luxuriant ajapearance. 

The women here, as in Catalonia, are by no means so 
Ijcautiful as are those around Cordova and ilala^a. 
Those found at the stores, markets and on the streets, 
wear short sleeves and low necked dresses. This is 
generally quite becoming. The hair among the })easanL 
women is plaited, hangs down their l^acks and is univei-- 
sally Ijlack, but among the higher classes, it is arranged 
into a knot on the top of the head, similarly to the styles 
jtrevelant in France, and a very handsome way of wear- 
ing the hair it is, particularly if there be a heavy suit 



l8o JEFt'ERSON DIELAKD GOODPASTURE. 

of it. Like the womeu of Yeiiiee and Andalusia, they 
wear a good deal of lace on their head.s. This fasliion 
ought to be introduced into the United States; no bon- 
net or hat is half so becoming. They wear the most 
outnigeous shoes, the heel being \ery high and located 
near the middle of tlie foot, and the toe very sharp and 
narro\^ . All coloi-s of shoes are worn except black, 
which are nor considered fasliionable. The foot of 
the Spanisli womnn is her pritlc, and its smalhiess is 
much remarked upon l)y strangeit-. 

The Judge remained at Grannollers. where it had 
been arranged to collect the stock. He must have been 
a b'it lonely, as he was tmable to speak to a soul in the 
town. Most of the jacks had l)cen collected, and he 
sjjcnt much of his time in looking at them and seeing 
them fed. They were a grand lot, far beyond what they 
had expected to get — all jet black, large, well formed 
and none older than five years. The Judge repeated 
over and over again that the collection seemed to him 
like a dream — that he could scarcely believe it real. 

They were quite convenient to him, too. lie writes 
to his wife that they occupy the first floor of his hotel, 
and that he slept over them every night. That soiue- 
times lie v.ould hear them all braying at one time, mak- 
ing good strong music. Those who have heard one jack 
bray can imagine the effect of eighteen. ITe likewise 
never tired of going to the market, and spent much 
of his time very pleasantly in this way. 

Krom Unuuudlers the jatks were 
To Marseilles. , . -, ., .,, ,, ,. 

slu})ped to .\hvrseilles. 1- ranee, rrojn 

which point they were to be embarked for New York. 
At Portbon. they stopped to feed, and here each jacK; 



TO MARSEILLES. l8l 

was examined carefull}- by a veterinary surgeon befoi'e 
they were allowed to be shipped out of the country. 
Wliile here it was diseoA-ered that they had failed to 
make a declaration before the United States consul, at 
Barcelona, and obtain a permit to sliip from him. In 
tliis declaration, the age, sex, size and color of animal 
must be given and where purchased, also price paid, and 
it must be made before the consul nearest the place of 
purchase. So the Judge and Rives continued the journey 
wiih the stock while W. H. Goodpasture went back to 
Barcelona for the required papers. On their way to 
^larseilles, a stop of several hours was made at Cette, 
France. Tliis is the most iuiportant city for the manu- 
factui'e of wine in France. They buy up the cheaper 
grades in France and Spain, and by processes known to 
themselves alone, so treat it as to make it closely imitate 
different grades and different Icinds of w^ne. It is then 
labeled the genuine article, and is shipped to wholesale 
dealers all over the world. Huge casks, fifteen to twenty 
feet in diameter are to be found here. 

The Judge arrived safely at Marseilles, where the 
stock Avas unloaded and earned to stables. He had to 
remain there for some eight or ten days, waiting for the 
saihng of the vessel on M'bich he had engaged to ship. 
Having so long to stay, Anth little to do and an inter- 
preter to show him around and do his talking, he wiis 
enabled to see much of a very beautiful city. Rive*? was 
brought along, he being, as before mentioned, a French- 
man, and, of coui-se, quite as much at home as in Spain. 

Marseilles is the first seaport of France, located on the 
Gulf of Lyons, and enjoys a large trade in the Levant 
and Algiers. The latter is by far the most successful 



l82 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

of any of the numerous attempts of France at 
(tolonization, and her trade is monopolized by this 
city. 

While there, a steamer came in with, a LirjL!;e number 
of African donkeys from Algiers, these diminutive 
animals being used in the parks for the children to ride, 
and to draw small market carts on the streets. Judge 
Goodpasture was greatly taken with them, and the im- 
porter offered him the pick of the lot for fifteen dollars, 
lie selected a very beautiful three year old Jennet for liis 
young son, Dillard, Jr., who exhibited her the following 
fa]] in tlie State P'air at Nashville. She was shown in 
tlie ring of jeunets three years old and over, and as a 
matter of sport, the judges tied one of the prize ribbons 
on her bridle and awarded her a prize of one dollar 
(wliich the Judge paid) to the intense delight of the boy. 
After keeping her about a year, she was exchanged for 
a saddle pony, on wliicli he took a real prize at the next 
fciir, and which he afterwards sold for three hundred 
dollars. 

Judge Goodpasture's great facility for getting ac- 
((uainted has been mentioned before in these pages. It 
was never better illustrated than on an occasion m 
this city. Ho was one day at the jack stable, and ob- 
served a man ^Adth a pair of Poitoii mules. He pro- 
ceeded to measure them, and was asked by the owner in 
I'rench if he wished to buy. He replied that he could 
not speak French, and the owner said that he could 
speak a little English, whereupon, the Judge at once en- 
tered into a conversation with him. and found that he 
had been, during the war, a cook on one of Anion L. 
Dnvis' lioats. Davi.s was ;in old Tennessean. thoroughly 



TO MARSEILLES. 183 

well known to the Judge, and he and the Frenclim.;in 
were soon the best of friends. 

Marseilles is a lovely city, much on tJic style of i'aris, 
with splendid streets, beautifully shaded, and lined with 
many magnificent hotels and cafes. Indeed, the latter 
are scarcely surpassed in any otlier city of the world. 
The quays are the most Inistling. busy aJid interesting 
part of the town, being constantly tlironged \dth crowds 
of turbaned orientals, as well as Greeks, Italians, Eng- 
lish and l-'rench, who ai-e engaged in the business of the 
place. The city trades all over the world, but especially 
in the East, and the variety of races found on the streets, 
drawn there by business, is a genuine study. 

Opposit-e the moutli of the harbor, is the curious old 
Chateau d'lf, in which iliraljcau was imprisoned, as 
well as the C'oimt of Monte C'risto, made so famous in 
the novel of that nfune by Dumas. The Judge was 
greatly interested in it, on account of this novel, having 
ssfen James O'Xeil play a dramitizatiou of it in a theater 
at Xew Orleans. 

One of the finest drives and promenades in the world 
is the Prado here, leading from the city, out several 
miles, to the bathing beach. It is shaded by eight rows* 
of spreading sycamore trees, all numbered and so trim- 
med as to be uniform to a remarkable degree. The 
Judge was out there several times, and greatly enjoyed 
watching the gayeties of the bathers, but could never be 
induced to take a plunge. He had never learned to 
swim. 

With visits to the botanical and zoological gardens, 
among the finest in Europe, the quays, fortifications, 
cathedrals, drives, parks. et<?.. the time went swiftly })y. 



1 84 TEFFKRSOX DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

and they i?oon found llionLselves and stock loaded on 
the shi]i and steaming out of the bay. 

The first stop was made at Cette, 

France, where several thousand 
em|)ty wine casks were taken a])oard and piled np on the 
upper deck, until the ship had sometMug of the appear- 
ance of a Mississippi steamboat overloaded ^\'ith cotton. 
Wliile here the captain gave a dining to liis father and 
friends. Eives was still with them, but left at this 
})oint to take the train for Barcelona. One leaving 
(*ette, Judge Goodpasture bade good bye forever to this 
[.►art of France, with many ]"»lea,«ant recollections of his 
visit. 

File next stop was at Denia, Spain. 

where the ship took on board ten 
thousand bushels of onion>s and other freight for Xew 
York. Then tliey went to Valencia, where the cargo 
of wine ca.sks was discharged, and fritits and i-aisins 
taken on. Then they stoi>}>ed two days at Almeria.. 
Spain. It was Sunday and int-ensely hot. They could 
see long lines of pack donkeys, bearing heavy bm'dens 
down to the ship landing, driven by the toughest class of 
j)eo})le seen in Spain — very dark in color, dressed some- 
what differently from those of any other part of the 
country, and looking more than half savage. From ai>- 
pea ranee, they must have had more of the Moorish blood 
than is found in other sections of Andalusia. The town 
is very rugged, high, steep hills, rising at intervals. 
Caverns have been dug out of the sides of these hills, in 
wjiich a considerable population resides. These abodes 
may be cool, but they pi-esen1 an awful appearance of 
dirt and srpialor. 



HEAVY LOSSES. 1 85 

Thev next stopped for over a day at Malaga, but no 
turther description of this toM'n is necessary. 

The jacks had been located between 
Heavy Losses. ^^^^^.^ -^ ^j^^ ^.^^^^1^ ^^^^^ ^^^.^^^ ., 

largo cargo, but little room was given them. They were 
able to get a fairly abundant supply of air. while the 
vessel was in motion, and the ventilators properly ad- 
justed, but when lying in port, it was unendurably iiot 
and stifling. In consequence of this intense heat and 
lack of fresh air, three jacks were lost at Almeria and 
one at ]\lalaga, the four being ea.sily worth five thousand 
dollars. Among the nmnber was "The King of Jacks'" 
before mentioned, whose superior they had never seen, 
and which they thought would be the greatest ever ini- 
l)orted to America with the possible exception of old 
Mammoth. He was worth anywhere from $2,000.00 
to $2,500.00. 

A rather amusing circimistance liappeued at ilalaga. 
The steamer v.as anchored out a half mile from the 
shore. When the dead jack was reportwl to the crew, 
they simply hoisted him and threw him overboard into 
the sea. That was late in the evening. Early next 
iiioriiing, it was found that he had floated ashore and 
was beating up against the docks of ]\Ialaga with the 
incoiiiing tide. The l)oaf \\-as informed by the authori- 
lics that they would not l»e allowed to discharge such 
tmuesirable cargo on them, and the cai>taiii was forced 
\o send in a boat and crew, who hitched up to tlie .jack, 
and with great labor, rowed him out some miles 
into the sea. The Judge was feeling sufficiently 
l.-adly about liis losses l)Ut was iiincli amused at 
t he ciri-uuisTauce, 



l86 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

At last they left the ^Lediterraiiean 
Sails for Home. , , i , , i i t . 

and her detestable ports and sto|)s. 

and as soon as they were fairly out at sea, the jacks 
immediately revived. They had employed a good man 
to attend to them, lie could speak no English, hut 
was an adept in signs, and they got along with Inm 
fairly well. It was a long voyage hut an uneventful 
one. The captain was a tyranical commander hut at 
the same time a jolly man, who enjoyed good wine and 
good eating. He especially delighted in very old Ruche- 
fort cheese, and the older they were and the more 
skippers they had, the hetter he liked them. This 
shocked the Judge, and the captain having obseiwed 
this, appeared to eat them with more relish than ever. 
One day, when eating a particularly lively piece of this 
clieese, as he carried a Ijit to his mouth, a skipper 
jumped into one of his eyes, and made it sting and watci' 
for some time. The Judge enjoyed this hugely, and 
expressed the wish that the whole army of them would 
follow the good example. 

At the end of a tedious trip, they landed in Brooklyn. 
They had never hefore landed there. As soon as pos- 
sible they got through the custom house. It is a queer 
thing that our custom system should he allowed to re- 
main so complicated that one cannot get through liis 
own pro})ei'ty, hut is forced to employ a commissioner 
who follows the business, and whose charges are usually 
exhorbitant. At that time, live stock imported for 
hreeding purposes, and of a new and valuable breed, were 
allowed to enter free of duty. After being passed 
liuough the custom house, they had to be examined by 
the ofiicial live stock examiner. This took a good part 
of the day. 



BROOKLYN. 187 

With much trouble and intense 
roo yn. \vorr\', they succeeded in getting a 

stable in Brooklyn, until they could make arrangements 
to sliip their stock. The following morning, when they 
went do\\'n to the stable, the proprietor, ^vho had never 
seen a jack before, informed them that he had no idea 
that they were such horrible animals, that he had slept 
none that night on account of their noise, and that his 
neighbors suffered almost as much; that they must move 
them that very morning, and that he would help them 
do so. One can form some idea of their noise, when, it 
is known that Perry & Lester, who erected a jack 
stable in West Nashville, near the stock yards, were 
enjoined by the neighbors from keeping them there, on 
the ground that they were a pubhc nuisance. 

They shipped by way of the Lake Erie and Western 
Kailroad, and got home ^vithout accident and without 
special incidents. Captain Hill had erected in their 
absence commodious jack stables near Cockrill Springs, 
and he and Mr. Hayes were on hand to receive them. 
On tliis trip Judge Goodpasture came througli with 
the jacks. They were six days coming from New York, 
and he and his son fed, watered and attended to the 
stock in transit. They shipped in Arms Palace cars and 
no stops were made, food and water being carried in the 
car. Tliis was a vei^ severe trip for a man of his age — 
little sleep, irregular meals and constant exposiu-e to the 
night air and drafts. But he was never a man to pay 
attention to any amount of labor or exposure — he had 
an idea that neither hurt him, and appeared to give no 
thought to the subject. In fact, up to this time, he had 
scarcely felt the effect of his years, and believed himself 
to be able to successfullv wnthstand an\i:hing-. 



CHAPTER XVII. 

The jacks were gotten into good 

shape for the ^vint€r and spring trade. 
Employment. ^ i o ^ 

an excellent catalogue was printed 
and distrilnited and the stock advertised in the principal 
agricultural papers. The tirm liad great success in the 
sales of this importation, together with the gray ones 
l)rought over on the previous trip. The last importation 
were sold at what would now appear high prices, rang- 
ing from $800.00 to $2,000,00. 

The Judge spent the winter attending to his home 
afi'airs and assisting in the care and sale of the jacks. 
He also argued some important cases in the Supreme 
Court during the ^nnter. One cause especially inter- 
ested him — that of Gore vs. Stafford. It had been twace 
tried in both the Circuit and Chancery Courts, and once 
by the Courts of Referees, altogether five times, and 
Staiford had lost at each trial. It was an important 
case, involving the title to an island. After losing be- 
fore the Referees, Staiford employed Judge Good- 
pasture's firm to assist his local attorneys before the 
Supreme Coiu-t. The record was much the largest be- 
fore the coiu't at that term, containing something like 
two thousand pages. Stafford gained it. Judge Caldwell 
who delivered the opinion of the court, being the same 
judge who had delivered the opinion in the Court of 
Referees, thus reversing himself and five previous judg- 
uients, a most uncommon legal triumph. 



'riiiKD impokYaTion. . 189 

By the middle of ^larch, 188 1, alJ of the jacks of boiii 

importations were sold but tliree; one of these being a 

Jack imported by him individiially named Paulito and 

which he afterwards sold for $1,200.00; Alfonso, the best 

jack of the lirst importation, and a three year old colt. 

They made good seasons that year, and holding them 

over proved a profitable investment. 

Having been so successful in the sale*^ 

of this importation, another was at 
Importation. ^ 

once resolved upon, and on May i, 
IcSSi', the Judge and his son, and once more "lion."' 
John Terry, left J^ashville for the third importation, 
uiu] sailed per steamship Chateau ^Margaux, ]\Iay 4. 

John was not put in the steerage this trip but in the 
second cabin, where he had plenty of wine at his mea!;-. 
wliich he had grown to appreciate ver\- much. His onJ\ 
trouble seemed to Ije that of ha^-ing to occupy a eal)iii 
with two white nu-n, one of whom was continuouslv 
sea-sick. This unsettled John's stomach again, but as 
ihe sea-sick man divided his bottle of In-aiuiy, he was. 
in a measure, compensated for other and disagreeable 
Teat u res. 

All who have ever been at sea will remeudjer how the 
water sceujs lo rise like a high rolling lull in the distance. 
This hill was u matter of much speculation to Jolui, who 
said he had, all his life, heard old uu'n say that water 
would seek its level. 

The passenger list was small but composed of a queer 
conglomeration of nationalities, a very few of whom 
could talk ^vith each other. Among the number was a 
Frenchman from Hayti, together with liis negro wife 
and two mulatto children, an old Greek, who was unable 



igo JEFFERSON DILI.ARD GOODPASTURE. 

to talk to anyone on board, two Arabs from Jerusalem, 
a German Jew and family, three or four Spaniards, 
several Frenchmen and three Americans. Altogether, 
there were nine di^stinct nationalities on board. 

The (Ireek passenger died during the voyage and was 
buried at sea. The captain conducted the funeral ser- 
vice, delivering a short but serious and appropriate 
address. It was ven,' afl'ecting to all the passengers, but 
to one of the Arabs it was almost ovci'whelming. 
They were Moslems, and had a horror of being buried 
by a Christian dog. This Arab was named Jusef, and 
eould speak a few words of English. The Judge soon 
got acquainted with him. Jusef said he was well fixed 
at Jerusalem — that he had a wife and two donkeys, and 
that he made them \vork for him a plenty. 

They landed in Bordeaux, France, 
!May 17. 1887, after a verj' smooth, 
pleasant and uneventfid voyage. They at once tele- 
gTaphed to Barcelona for Eivcs, and were two days liear- 
ing from him. He replic-d. that he was engaged by an- 
other importing firm. They then searched for another, 
and finally fotmd a man. a stevedore, named Paid Carles, 
who could speak English but had never acted as an in- 
terpreter, nor lieaj-d of brcx^ding jacks. He and the 
Judge had an amusing interview. Carles agreed to go 
\\ith them for ten francs per day and expenses. They 
desired to start at once. Suddenly Carles turned to tlie 
Judge and saiti: "Sir, do you know my terms?"' The 
Judge replied that he thought it ten fracs per day and 
expenses. "Xo sir,'" said he. "it is, that I require 
twenty-four hoiu's notice." "Then,"' said the Jiulge, 
"I now aive notice that in twents'-four hours we will 



JFRENCH FAIRvS. IQI 

leave Bordeaux." This was satisfactory, and at the end 
of that time they left to attend several fairs to he held 
in southern Fi-anee. 

They visited a niimher of these, the 
one at Aries heing the best, hut found 
no jacks good enough to import, though they found any 
number of other kinds of live stock of the best quality. 
These fairs are not such in our sense of the word, but 
are more in the nature of huge annual markets, whicli 
the whole surrounding country attend, bringing what- 
ever they niay have for sale. It is the best of all places 
to see the varying types of jieasants. It is made a gen- 
eral holiday as well as market, several dances being in 
}!rogress throughout the day, traveling shows and slight 
of hand performances doing a thriving Inisiness, and 
every one making a big day of it. 

On such a day. the leading hotel of the town, at break- 
fast time (]2 m.), is a place worthy of study. The long 
dining table is continuously crowded. The women rush 
in w ith armful s of Ijread, three feet long, like they some- 
limes carry stovewood in this country. A part of this 
is distributed on the table and the balance stood up in 
one corner of the room. Two or three barrels of wine 
stand near with faucets in them, at which two v.omen 
are kept busy filling bottles for the use of the guests. 
Many of those who have finished the meal linger at the 
table to drink one or two more tmnblers of wine and 
smoke a cigarette. By the time they have eaten a hearty 
breakfast and drunk a quart of wine, each feels in a 
good humor with the others and as they all talk at the 
same time, a very babel of noise rises with the volumes 
of smoke. It is a sight never seen in America. 



1^2 JKKFKRSON Dll.I.AKl) ( UJODFASTLrRE. 

After visiting these fairs and rnnniug 
Leaves for t e j^^^^.j^ .^ niunber of false ritmors about 
Pyrenees. . 

the location of fine jacks, it was 

recognized that there was nothing to be had in this part 
of France, and they left for the mountains, passing 
through Toulouse and Carcassonne. They reached the 
end of the railroad, and the foot of the Pyrenees, at a 
village called Quillan. Here, in looking over a breed- 
er's directory for France, they found that one Uiho, gill, 
of Porte, in the Cerdan, was a. breeder of stallion jacks. 
They telegraphed him. France being on a war basis, 
the telegTaph lines are not confined to tlie railroads, })ut 
iiin into the mountains and every part of the republic. 

Tpon investigation, it was discovered 
Courtois ^j^^^, ^^.^^^^^ "j^.^^.^. ^^ ^^^^.^, ^^^^^. ^^^^ 

& Co. 

mountains in a carriage; that it vrould 

take not less than three days, and that there was no bank 
at Porte from which they coidd draw money. As they 
were running short of funds. \V. Jl. (loodpasture v/as 
sent back to Carcassonne to draw some, though it was 
liot at all certain that he could gel it there. It turned 
(lUt to be a holiday, and the banks were all closed. Next 
dav. he found that the banks there did not deal in such 
exchange, it lieing a rather small i)lace. so he returned 
to Quillan. 

The following day he went to Toidouse, where his 
letter of credit had a regular corresitondenl, Messrs. 
Courtois »S: Co., and carried with him his passport as iui 
identilication. Toulouse Ijeing an interior city and hav- 
ing had little business in this line, they declined to pay a 
(Jnift on the credit, unless authorized to do so by P.rowii. 
Shipley & Co.. of Ltmdon. on whom the credit w:is 



COURTOIS & CO. 193 

drawn, it having been issued by Brown Bros. & Co., of 
Xew York. Tliis placed Mr. Goodpasture in a jwedica- 
nient. He was expected to return to Quillan on the 
seven o'clock train that evening. The interpreter had 
been left there with Judge Goodpasture. However, he 
concluded to wait, much against his will, and gave the 
bank the money to cable, panng for the answer at the 
same time, a queei' custom that is enforced in France 
where the message requires an answer; and also gave 
them a telegram to send Judge Goodpasture, explaining 
the matter, and luckily taldng a receipt for the same. 
I'he latter was never sent, and when his son failed to 
aiTive at the expected time, it threw the Judge's part\ 
into the greatest consternation. The amount to be 
drawn was some four thousand dollars, and the Judge 
jumped to the conclusion that some one had seen him 
draw the money, had followed, rohbed and possibly mur- 
dered him. A sleepless night was spent, and when the 
morning train came in without his son, the uncertainty 
of the previous evening appeared certain and hope Ava.s 
abandoned. The Judge telegraphed to Bordeaux, Tou- 
louse and Garcassoniie, and began making preparations 
to start out on the sad search by the next train. He 
liad very little money, but the inn keeper at Quillan told 
him that he need not pay his board bill. 

Fortunately, before the train left, he re<;eived this 
telegram in answer to one he had sent: "Drew money 
this morning, gone — Courtois." This relieved him at 
once. His son an-ived with the money that evening, 
and was greatly astonished to find that the bank had 
failed to send his telegTam at the time of the cable. 
He had not been well treated hy the bank in other 
13 



194 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

respects. Altogether, the mistreatment was so gross and 
its consequences so serious, that they thought the firm 
deserred a lesson that would stay with them as long as 
they remained in Ijusiness. They, therefore, wrote them 
a letter just as strong as they could find language to 
make it. The matter was fully reported and refen-ed to 
Brown, Shipley &' Co.. who. after making a thorough 
examination into it, and hearing the statement of the 
bank, promptly removed them as one of their corres- 
pondents and siibstituted a rival bank. No other 
action was ever taken in the matter. 

It was a long, dreary drive over tlie 

rive ver mountain from Quillan, a part of the 
Mountains. 

^vay being over an unfinished road, 

where it was necessary to walk a good part, of the time. 
Ancient castles crowned the tops of the high mountain 
peaks, giving a very romantic appearance, and occasion- 
ally a wild goat could be seen scrambling along the rocky 
cliffs. Ice cold water poured down the sides of the 
mountain, the streams being fed by the melting snow. 

They entered a small valley, in which was located a 
little village, inhabited by the most provincial people 
they had ever met. The Judge said that undoubtedly 
no white man had ever put his foot in the place before. 
()nly Americans were white men to the Judge, just as 
all the outside world were barbarians to the Greeks. By 
ransacking the town, buvdng ham at one place, eggs at 
another and potatoes at a tliird. they were enabled to 
have a verj' good dinner. 

While the meal was being prepared, the Judge looked 
around the village. A horrid old woman, evidently 
the virago of the place, said something to him. but as 



GREAT EASTERN. I95 

he did not understand it. he paid no attention to her. 
She repeated it louder with a Hke re&ult. Then she was 
good and mad, came up to liim, and \nth a loud voice 
and many gesticulations, gave him several pieces of her 
mind. The Judge retreated to the place where the din- 
ner was to be served, and where the interpreter had re- 
mained. The old woman followed with a number of 
younger people close in her wake. "'Oh,'' she said, ''you 
can talk and you can hear, but you think yourself too 
fine a gentleman to speak to me.'' And thereafter the 
Judge kept close in until they left. 

Before entering the valley of the Cerdan, they 
spent the night with one J. B. Merlat, at the \-illa.ge of 
Fourmigueres. an innkeeper and stock coimnissioner, 
whom they employed. He proved in all respects the 
most reliable and competent of any ever engaged. 

They found an abundance of good 
jacks here. It is on the frontier ot 
France with Bourg-^Nfadame on the French and Puy- 
ccrda on the Spanish side. Sixteen head were purchased 
ajid, both collectively and individually, they were tlie 
best lot ever imported to America. Among the numl>er 
was Great Eastern, a jack that has stood unrivaled for 
size, general fomi and excellence, either in Europe or 
America. He was five years old, sixteen and one-haJf 
hands high, short, black hair, long body, unequalled 
head and ear, large, clean bone, and beauty to a re- 
markable dogi-ee. In fact, he filled the ideal of a perfect 
jack. He had taken the first prize of a thousand pese- 
tas at the International Jack Show, at Puycerda, and 
his reputation had extended all over that part of Em-ope. 
While on the subject, it M-ill. perhaps, be in order to 



196 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

State, tliat at ihe request of the executive committee of 
the American Breeders' Association of Jacks and Jen- 
nets, his picture was inserted in the first volume of the 
Jack Stock Stud Book, as a perfect specimen of the 
Catalonian breed. After getting him home, the Judge 
was offered four thousand dollars for him on a guar- 
antee of his eomplete recovery (he was then suffering 
from the results of the trip) which he declined. He 
was certain the jack would recover in his own hands, but 
feared to risk him with another. There were a number 
of other very line animals in the importation, among 
them a sixteen hand jack that took third prize in the 
ring at Puycerda being shown against Great I'.astern. 

John succeeded in distinguishing 
John DJstin- |^-^^^^p,f ^,j^ ^j^^g ^^p. One dav, thev 

gui&hcs Himself. "^ . , ', 

were oxaimning a most beautiful 

specimen of rather small jack. Just as W. H. Good- 
pasture stepped in front of him for a closer inspection, 
the jack suddenly jerked loose from his owner and 
grabbed ]\lr. Goodpasture by the overcoat, tearing it 
almost off him, and very nearly jerking him down. Re- 
leasing himself, he and the balance of the party, the 
Judge leading the van, made their escape over a stone 
fence. This examination was sufficient, and they at 
once left. As they drove off, the last they saw of the 
(iwner, he was after the jack ^vith a pitchfork. 

It seems the old farmer had experienced trouble in 
abundance with him before, and was growing veiT tired 
of it. He sold him for a song to a young, strong and 
risky farmer hard by. who thought the jack had not been 
properly handled. But after hanng liim a few days 
and being nearly killed, he grew quite as sick of liim as 



JOHN DISTINGUISHES HIMSELF. 197 

had his previous owner. Hence, he telegraphed Judge 
Goodpasture to make liiui an offer for him. The Judge 
then called John in and told liim all about the jack, 
and asked him if he thought he could conquer Mm, 
otherwise he w^ould not want liim at any price. John 
said he certainly could. The Judge telegraphed an offer 
of three hundred franc — a little less than sixty dollars — 
if the owner would deliver him at Bourg-Madame and 
have him shod all around. This was accepted, and one 
evening in came the jack, led by two men. He had on 
a big heavy bridle with a rope in either ring. Each 
man walked at his side and held one of the ropes, mak- 
ing it impossible for the jack to jump at either because 
he would be held by the other. In addition, he had a 
rounding steel band with double rows of teeth, fitted 
over his nose to hold him back. 

He was brought up in front of the hotel and John 
went out to get him. ISTow, John is six feet one, has 
unusually long, muscular fingers, with no surplus flesh 
whatever, and is a most powerful man. Wliile the two 
men held him, he went out and secured a firm hold on 
the jack's loAver jaw, his fingers meeting inside the 
mouth. Then, to the amazement of the Frenclmien, 
he asked that the bridle be taken off. They had to be 
told to do so a second time. As soon as this was done, 
the jack began to rear and plunge and ti^ to strike 
John with liis fore feet, but as he did so, John, by a 
quick wrench, threw Mm to the gi'ound. The jack 
l>ounced up like a rubber ball, at once renewed the fight 
and was again thrown. By this time, John was gripping 
Ms mouth so tightly that blood was spurting from 
uumerous places in his lips. The Judge called out to 



igS JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

John to kill or conquer him. To shorten the storv', it 
is only necessar}- to add, that John so thoroughly sub- 
dued him that he followed him without bridle or halter 
into the stable. The Judge presented him with a new 
suit of clothes, and as long as he remained there, he 
was the biggest man in Bourg-Madame. The jack wa^* 
never aftenvards any trouble to them, but thorouglily 
docile and obedient. He was sold to a Texan for 
$750.00, but when spring came, his old viciousness re- 
appeared, and having no one who could re^conquer him, 
he was turned out \\'ith the horses on the ranch, to run 
at large. 

They finished bunng Jime 17, and 

The March Across . i j /» m ^i i i 

_^ „ ^ . started lor larascon, the nearest rail- 

The Mountains. 

way station, at four o'clock on the 
morning of the 18th. The distance from Bourg- 
Madame to the railroad is foriy-two miles, over the 
Pyrenees. The jacks had to be led, and a man was 
employed for each. Their excellent commissioner, Mon- 
sieur Merlat, engaged these, and saw to their getting 
off early, so as to go the day's journey before the sun 
became too hot. They were given a dollar per day, and 
fed and housed themselves on the trip. 

It looked like a little army as they passed out of the 
town that bright June morning, all the jacks braAong 
and the men singing and shouting rough badinage to 
each other. The Judge insisted on leading a jack him- 
self. They went in single file. It was a jolly procession 
and attracted great attention. They would sometimes 
pass by women working in the fields. This was always 
a great time for the men to get otf their jokes. And 
sometimes these were rough beyond anything permitted 



THE MARCH ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS. 199 

in this coimtry. It was all taken, however, in good 
part, and the women would usually paiTV them quite 
successfully. 

The first day they went fifteen miles to Porte, at the 
foot of the steepest part of the road up the Pp-enees. 
From tliis Tillage they could look up and see the snow 
covering the entire mountain top. Here the men chip- 
ped in and bought bread, Avine and dried beef from 
which they made a hearty breakfast. They slept in the 
hay that night. 

The Judge and son went to the Delmonico's of the 
place, a house composed of a stable underneath, and a 
small place of entertainment above. One of the 
daughters of the house was a plain but extremely 
good natured woman of abont forty years of age. She 
was very soUcitous of pleasing and making them com- 
fortable. The Judge seemed to tliink of no way of com- 
pensating her for such kind attention except by letting 
it out through the interpreter that she was the beet look- 
ing woman he had seen in France, and a few other like 
comphments. This gratified her immensely, and she 
redoubled her efforts to entertain them— slew a kid, 
killed her fattest chicken and feasted them to all the 
good things on the place. 

In going over the mountains next day, they stopped 
for a few moment's rest, as they did quite often in going 
up very long and steep climbs. Here the Judge's Jack 
stepped over the guttering of the road bed onto a 
slightly elevated bank, not more than eight inches high, 
to graze. When ready to start, the jack refused to come 
down. The Judge pulled and persuaded, but for some 
time in vain. Finally, the jack reared as though going 



200 JEFFERSON DILLAKD GOODPASTURE. 

to JLUiip a liigli fence and gave a feai'ful Je<ip, landing 
in the middle of the road and almost jumping ever the 
top of the Judge's head, who vvas the veiy picture of 
anuizenient and surprise. 

After three days of tedious travel, they iU'rived at 
Tarascon, where they proposed to i-e^st for a couple of 
days, with all the jacks e_xcept Great Eastern, he having 
become somewhat lame. They had instructed his leader 
to take no risks of injuring Mm if he was a week m 
coming or even more. Here one of their largest and 
fattest jacks died from having been traveled too hard 
in crossing the mountain. Great Eastern not arriving, 
they made arrangement.s to have liim cared for, and 
decided not to ship liim in this importiition hut to M'nd 
back for him after Ms perfect recovery. 

They shipped to Bordeaux via Toulouse, and sailed 
from there with fourteen head, landing safely in Xash- 
ville with the entire number. 

They had a lot of good company and 
The Voyage .^ jolly tiuio on l>oard coming home. 

To New York. ^ ^ ^ ^, ,. f „ 

Capt. C. C. H. Burton and rranJc 

Lestei- were on board with a most excellent importation 

—one among the best ever brought over; also Mr. A. B. 

^lurray and ^Ir. Rutherford, with an importation large 

in numbers, rather undersized but containing some vei7 

handsome ammals. All these people were well known 

to them and were apjn-eciated companions. 

On these French boats, breakfast is not served until 

eleven o'clock and frequently later, and as they were 

generally up early and expected to be busy with the 

stock, this feature of the trip did not look veiy pleasing. 

Fortunatelv, in u'oing down tlie Gevonne. Bordeaux be- 



• THE VOYAGE TO NEW YORK. 20I 

ing eighty miles up the river from the Bay of Biscay, 
they stopped to take on some freight at a small town 
called Panllac, famous for its claret wines. Here two of 
the pai-ty went ashoi'e on a boat, the steamer being 
anchored in mid stream, and bought two hnndred and 
fifty eggs, a fine ham, onions, lemons and a freshlv 
cooked hog's head for the benefit of the Judge, who 
esteemed it a dish of especial delicacy. On board, the} 
soon made a bargain with the chief cook to furnish them 
with bread and hot coffee, and to cook the ham and eggs. 
These they had for a seven o'clock breakfast every morn- 
ing during the voyage, and no man was ever heard to 
complain of the lack of variety. 

One of the jiassengers was a Frenchnum who had lived 
for a time in the State of Missouri and co\dd s])eak Eng- 
lish. He was very talkative, very irascible, and an utter 
stranger to the meaning of a joke. He was above sixty 
years of age and felt privileged. His little weaknesses 
and eccentricities soon became apparent. His name 
was Crossa. After getting fairly settled down and 
started, the Judge one morning said: "Mr. Cross-eye, 
this is a ver}' fine morning.'' The old fellow looked at 
him rather hard but answered that it was. The next 
day at breakfast, the Judge said, ":Sh\ Cork-eye, how 
long do you expect to remain in America?" Mr. Crossa 
looked at him harder than ever and was silent for a time, 
but finally made some sort of reply. But on the third 
day the climax was reached. The Judge asked: "'Will 
you kindly pass me the bread, Mr. Cock-eye?" Then the 
old fellow jumped up from the table in the greatest rage, 
and it was with some difficulty that he was restrained. 

All was quiet after this until one day Mr. Crossa 



202 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE- • 

spoke of having once lived in x\merica; that he was in 
"Mizzuri'" for about eight years. And the Judge, with 
great gravity, told him that if he had lived in misery for 
that length of time, no one could well blame him for 
going back to France. This came near precipitating 
the whole trouble over again. 

Crossa was tery fond of wine, as are all Frenchmen, 
and stated that he would rather do Avithout bread at 
Ms meals than wine. So at dinner that day, Frank 
Lester started the matter Ijy giving the balance of the 
crowd the wink and pouring out a full tumbler of wine; 
all the others followed suit, drank it and refilled, and be- 
fore the old fellow could well get started on his meal, 
all the wine was gone. He ordered the waiter to go for 
more. The waiter disappeared and returned v.'ith the 
information that all had Ijeen served that was given out 
for the meal. And the old Frencliman said he would 
as soon dine with a set of hogs as with such a lot of 
Americans. 

They amved home the last of July. In transit from 
New York, the jacks grew so tired and sleepy from in- 
cessant travel and constant standing on their feet, that 
they began to fall and had to be stopped and rested at 
Cincinnati, from which point the Judge came home on 
a passenger train, All were gotten to Xash\alle in good 
condition and placed in the old sales stable of Hill & 
Goodpastm-e. The partnership with Mr. Hill ended with 
the sec(md importation. 



CHAPTER XVIIL 

After resting for only a few days, 
Sends Back For ^y pj Goodpasture, carrj-ing John 
-w-itli him. returned for Great East- 
em. On arrival in the Cerdan, he offered a reward of 
one thousand pesetas to any one who would find him a 
Jack of equal merit. No one ever claimed the reward. 
Mr. Goodpasture purchased seven more jacks and a 
French coach horse, and in September, arrived safely 
home vdih them all, including Great Eastern. 

A very quick trip had been made in order, if possible, 
to get back in time to show Great Eastern in. the State 
Fair. The jack arrived in Nashville only two days be- 
fore the meeting and was too much affected by the trip 
to be exhibited. But he was shown in the stables to 
large and admiring throngs of stock men. 

A most excellent cut of Mm from a sketch by the artist 
A. C. Webb, was soon aftenvard made for illustration in 
the stock papers of the countrv^ This was stated by a 
member of the Farmers' Home Journal Company, of 
Louisville, to be the first illustration of a jack ever to 
appear in a paper, which is, without doubt, true. There 
were few people who believed it to be a con-ect repre- 
sentation of the animal. The cut was made by the 
]kIethodist Publishing House, who sold a copy of it to a 
IocaI printer, who intended to use it as a cut in his Jack 
bills. A lawsuit resulted, the court holding tlmt the 
picture, unless copyrighted, Monged to the public. 



204 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

This stock was also sold easily and at good prices, ex- 
cept Great Eastern, who was fanned to a breeder for the 
season, where he contracted lung fever and died. The 
winter and spring was passed in caj"ing for and selling 
this stock. 

The following summer, the firm 

formed a partnership for an impoi"la- 
Partnerships. . ^ 

tion \nth livles and Panner. former 

importers, and W. 0. Parmer and W. H. Goodpastui'e 

went for the stock. 

Judge Good]iasture concluded to rest 

. '*' that summer, and he and wife took 

To Mexico. 

a pleasure tnp to Mexico. They left 

about the middle of June, 1888, and made their first 
stop at St. Louis, examining all the important points 
of interest. Among the things seen particularly enter- 
taining to the Judge, was the cyclorania of the battle of 
,Missionar\^ Eidge, where he recognized the pictures of 
Governor Porter, General Cheatham and others. 

It was during the memorable Cleveland and Thumian 
campaign. Xow, like the old Roman, he himself was 
accustomed to carry a red bandanna. 31rs. Goodpastiu'e, 
having sliipped her shawl in her trunk, he loaned her 
his bandanna to protect her head from the drafts on 
the train from St. Louis to Kansas City. Ever}' one 
on the train reoog-nized the sign, and some were heard 
to remark that there sits a good Democrat. 

They stopped a day and night in Kansas Cit}s long 
enough to see all there was to be seen. The town is too 
new to have much to attract visitors, unless it be streets 
graded down a hundred feet below the houses and 
\vhich cannot be reached by their occupants. They next 



A VISIT TO WKXICO. 205 

visited Las \'egas, where they spent a night, and the 
next day went to the Hot Springs. Here they made 
the entire ascent of the monntain, which gi'ew a little 
tiresome to the Judge, l)iit they were rewarded by a line 
view. They were especially pleased with Las Vegas and 
the springs, and enjoyed their stay there very ranch. 

They stopped for two days at El Passo, where they 
were delighted to meet ^Ir. A. G. Hodge and wife, Anth 
whom they stopped. These were old friends who had 
boarded at the Judge's for two or three years, and had 
been great favorites with the family. Their stay was 
most agreeable, and eveiT attention was shown them. 
Here they fii-st learned of the ^[exican flood, and that 
the trains had been stopped for some time on account of 
it. They left on the second train that went out over 
the road, and had to stop altogether at night, and often 
in day time they would have to wait until an employee 
walked in front of the train to see if the track was in 
condition to be passed over. 

At Leone, where the flood seems to have been the 
worst, they were forced to stop an entire day. Tliis is 
a large town, and they found the people sleeping in the 
]>ajks in ihe greatest destitution, the town being sub- 
merged in water. A large number of people were search- 
ing the rivers for the dead. 

They arrived at Mexico City in the night. On the 
way down, they had become acquainted with two sisters 
of charity. On alighting at the depot, no carriages 
\\ere to be had, all being engaged. They were relieved 
from this unpleasant predicament by the sisters, who 
kindly offered them seats in their carriage and had them 
driven to the hotel Iturbide, at wliich they stopped. 



2o6 JKFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURK. 

Here they met ]\lajor Foster, a Tennessean, who showed 
them many courtesies. They also met Mr. Bowling and 
wife of Bowling Green, Kentucky, a place not more than 
sixty n)iles from their own home. 

They at once devoted themselves assiduously to seeing 
the sights of the town, examining the great aqueducts 
built by Cortez, seeing the place where Maximilian was 
shot, the private burying grounds of the city, and the 
monument of Juarez. This monument the Judge 
"thought one of the finest and handsomest he had ever 
seen. They went to Guadalupe and saw a natural soda 
fountain boiling up from the gToiind, the shrine of 
"ily Lady of Guadalupe'* and the cathedral. Xeax 
here, they saw the tomb of Santa Anna, a veiy plain and 
unassuming one, and such as would indicate that his 
counti'janen were not very' proud of his memory. They 
brought home some flowers from his grave. Before 
returning to the city they ate a regular Mexican dinner. 

Through an introduction by Major Foster, they were 
allowed to visit the militar}' school, M^here they were 
treated with much consideration and shown everything. 
"When they entered a class room, the professor and all 
the students would stand until they left. They went to 
Chepultepec, from which point they coidd see the smoke 
rising from the volcano Popocatapetl. They were much 
struck l)y the street railway system, the lines having 
first, second and third class cars, and a baggage car fo? 
freight. The conductoi"s use horns instead of bells foi 
stopping them. 

They visited the American legation and were well re- 
ceived, being invited to the Fourth of July ball, which 
thev did not find convenient to attend. Thev were 



A VISIT TO MEXICO. 20^ 

much impressed \nth many of the Mexican public huikl- 
ings, and especially by the Senate building on the 
square. They attended a Sunday entertainment given 
(in behalf of the flood sufferers. It was given in the 
building erected by the government at the Xew Orleans 
Exposition. The music was magnificent, and a gi'eat 
many of the best people were there in very handsome 
costumes. They also saw what is a beautiful sight in all 
countries and is appreciated by all classes, a grand mili- 
tary review. 

They spent a week in the Mexican capital, and during 
the entire time the weather was cool and delightful, it 
rained nearly every day, but only in showei^ and inter- 
fered little with sight seeing. They returned to the 
United States via El Paso. Along the road they bought 
liaskets of delicious strawberries, and were informed 
that they were to be had every day in the year, but would 
not bear shipment. 

Xotliing in the country seemed to so much impress 
the Judge as the plowing in the fields by the natives. 
lie had been a famous plower himself in his boyhood 
days, and always prided liimself on Ms ability to run a 
straight furrow; but these Mexicans could surpass any- 
one at it he had ever seen; not one. but all, seemed to 
do so. 

At El Paso they changed their return route and went 
to Los Angeles where they stopped for two days, seeing 
the noted ostrich farm, visiting the to^\^l*s watering 
place, and watching the surf bathing. The Judge was 
much impressed by the many improvements noted, and 
the general air of prosperity. Among other things, they 
have built one of the finest drives in the country. From 



2o8 JEFFKRvSON L)«LLARD (iOODPASTT KK. 

liere they went to San fVancisco, where they remained 
eight days, stopping at the Palace ITotel. at that time 
the largest in the United States. They went to the 
ship building yards, and saw liic warship, Alabama, 
launched. They ran out and spent a day at Oakland, 
a beautiful suburban town, one afternoon at San Bafael 
and an evening at the Golden Gate. In the city, they 
visited Sutro Heights, which they thought the prettiest 
])lace yet visited. These lovely gardens and grounds are 
i-eally private and filled with fine residences but the 
public are kindly allowed to enter and admire them. 

Of course they went to (*hinatown — no visit to San 
Francisco is complete without it. Their visit was much 
facilitated by a letter of introduction from a Cliinese 
merchant which gave them an entrance into places not 
open to the public. They examined the Joss House, and 
at night, the Judge visited the Chinese theater. 

Leaving San Francisco, they next stopped for a couple 
of days at Salt Lake City, where they were in time to 
see the celebration of the landing of the pioneer fathers 
in the Utah Valley. There were speeches by Cannon 
and others, and one of the widows of Brigham Yoimg 
occupied a seat on the platform. They visited the cele- 
lirated Ueehive, one of Brigham YoTing's numerous man- 
sions, his grave, the tithing house and the great temple, 
not yet complete, but a most magnificent building. 
They had Ix-en at work on it for more than twenty years. 
They were at Garfield Beach and saw the multitudes 
bathing in the lake. 

They next visited Colorado Springs, Golden Gate 
Park and Manitou Springs. Xear here Senator Palmer 
has his summer home. Thev were at Denver for a dav, 



A VISIT TO MEXICO. 209 

spending the time driving over the city. It is a hand- 
some and well built town, but contains nothing of 
especial interest. 

There were few things to disappoint them on the tour, 
the general trip being a most agreeable surprise. But 
a few were so to the Judge, and among these was the 
noble red man of the West. Instead of finding the man 
of splendid carriage and fine physique which he ex- 
pected, he pronounced them the lowest order of hiunaii 
being-s he had ever seen. All were dirty and filthy, all 
looked half starved and all seemed to be beggai's. And 
if it Avere possible to Ise so, the women looked worse 
than the men, illshapen, undeveloped and almost 
naked. 

The Garden of the Gods A^as also disappointing. 
They had passed through the gi*and canons and other 
scenery that was so much superior, that the place looked 
tame and insipid. Taken as a whole, however, he pro- 
nounced it the greatest and pleasantest trip he had ever 
made. 

During the absence of VV. H. Goodpasture m the early 
summer, Judge Goodpasture had purchased a lot just 
to the rear of the fair grounds, on which he erected an 
excellent stable and feed store, and in which he ex- 
ercised his talent for practical economy, purchasing 
the lumber in person and superintending the erection 
of the buildings. On his return from ]\Iexico, a part 
of the importation was put in the new stables. Among 
the number in the last lot brought over, was a half sister 
to Great Eastern, a fine three year old, which was after- 
wards sold for a thousand dollars, a good price for li 
jennet, and especially so tov an untried one: 
14 



2IO JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

The French coach horse that had 
Leave for impor- ^^^^^ imported had attracted a great 
deal of favorable attention and a half 
interest in him was sold for $750.00, the horse having 
cost in France $300.00 in round numbers. Tliis led the 
Judge to think there might be money in well selected 
coach horses;. As Messrs. Lyles and Parmer, partners, 
could attend to the jacks in his absence, he determined 
upon the importation of a small number of English 
Cleveland bays, and he and W. H. Goodpasture left for 
England the latter part of August, 1888. 

On arri^-ing at New York, they had the opportunity 
of attending the grand ovation tendered Senator Thur- 
man, then the Democratic nominee for Vice President, 
at Madison Square Garden. There were full twenty 
thousand lusty Democrats present, packing the great 
building and all seemed to be yelling and waiving red 
bandannas. The old Roman was so feeble as to be able 
to speak only a few words, inaudible to most of the 
crowd but was followed by Governor Flower, whose 
voice rang clear and strong to the limits of the vast 
crowd. Several other Democrats of national reputation 
.spoke. It was the biggest political gathering the Judge 
had ever seen. 

From New York they sailed on the 
**S<»^- Anchor Line steamer, Fumessia, for 

Glasgow, Scotland, and landed on September 18, in 
Glasgow. They at once Ix'gan an investigation into the 
horse business, visiting the stables of Da\dd Riddle, one 
of the best known of all the Scotch breeders, being the 
owner of the Prince of Wales, perhaps the greatest Clyde 
«re at that tiine in Scotland, After e:N-an)ining what 



LONDON AND iTvS ATTRACTIONS. 211 

Mr. Riddle had in the city, they, in company with his 
son, visited several breeding establishments in the 
country, Init purchased nothing, returning to the 
city. 

The Glasgow exposition was still in progress, which 
they went to see. It was quite elaborate and contained 
many interesting tilings. 

On the streets of the city, they were much entertained 
at seeing the costumes of the Highlanders and were as- 
tonished that such a dress could survive so long. They 
took the train, after a stay of two days, for London, 
going by way of Edinburg, York and other cities, and 
in passing through the former could see some of the 
fine monuments and castles. This train was the fastest 
on which they had ever ridden. The distance from 
Glasgow to London is four hundred and fifty miles. 
This they made in nine hours, including stops. The 
schedule during the hunting season is eight hours. 

On arriving in London, they went to 

London and Its ^j^^-^. f^^j^^-^-^Q^ stopping place with 
Attractions. ,^ ^^ ^ rr<, , , ^ , , 

Mrs. Dysai-t. Thoy had not yet dis- 
covered where to go to tind tlie liorses desired, and de- 
termined to stav some flays in London informing them- 
fcelves. 

The city had many very attractive things to he seen 
just at tliis time. Among others which they attended 
was an evening performance at the Irish Exhibition. 
There was a perfect little Irish Aallage. with a herd of 
Kern- cows, the smallest cattle in existence, and the 
nllagers showed how they carried on their dairpng, the 
linen industry and many other things. There was a his- 
torically correct representation of Blarney and Droghedti 



212 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

castles. A company of Irish cavalry gave a fine exhibi- 
tion of riding and field sports. Di^^ding themselves 
into two companies, they put on wooden helmets with 
long plumes in them, and anned themselves with stout 
sticks. At a given signal, each charged the other and 
tried to knock out the plumes from the helmets, and it 
li)oked like they would knock each others heads off in 
the undertaking. Later, as infantry, they stormed and 
took Drogheda castle, one of the uiost realistic lights 
imaginable. 

They also went to the French exhibition one evening. 
In addition to a splendid display of the products of 
France and her colonies, there was given a fine exhibi- 
tion of the French soldier in the field, camp life, etc., 
and of their campaigns iii Africa, and Egypt. Besides 
the large company of French soldiers, mounted on ex- 
cellent horses, there was a large company of Arabs, 
cojnmaiKk'd })y a native Sheik. They rode pure bred 
Arabian hoi-ses, which was in itself a most entertaining 
sight. These gave an exhibition of life on the plains 
and desert, their modes of worship and government, 
their games, and, finally, in a marauding expedition, 
captured and carried off a caravan crossing the desert. 

Like all visitors to London, they made it a point to 
visit Madame Taussand's. It is the best display of wax 
figures in Eiu'ope. They entered a long hall filled \rith life 
like coimterfeits of all the notable people about whom 
there was a public curiosity, and leisurely exaanined them 
in passing down. Suddenly Judge Goodpasture stopped 
and pointed some distance down the hall to the solitaiw 
figure of a man standing with his back to them. The 
.Tudge sai4 thfit^ looking at the main's back and from bis 



tONiJON AND ITS ATTRACtlONS. 2t3 

position, it looked exactly like Andrew Johnson. They 
strolled on down, and when they reached the figure, 
sure enough it was Johnson, and so perfect that the 
Judge felt like shaking hands with him. If there were 
any other Americans to be seen they are not now re- 
ealled. 

In making inquiries in the city, they discovered a 
breeders" directory for the kingdom, and found the exact 
information desired, the names of the breeders of vai-ious 
kinds of horses and their addresses. In this directory, 
they were astonished to find that England had a jack 
breeder, Mr. C. L. Sutherland, and that he lived only 
a few miles out of the city in the county of Kent. Not 
discovering how to reach him by rail, they took a car- 
riao-e and drove through what is considered one of the 
prettiest parts of England. They amved about eleven 
o'clock in the morning, and found ilr. Sutherland still 
in bed, but he got up and treated them with great hos- 
pitality. He had the Maltese and Catalonian breeds of 
jacks, an excellent specimen of the latter, but asked a 
price for him altogether beyond reason. He had form- 
erly owned a fine Poitou, but had sold him at auction in 
France for more than a thousand dollars. He had them 
to dismiss their carriage and remain to dine with him. 
After dinner, they walked over to the home of Mr. 
Darwin, the scientist, where Ms widow still lived. The 
lawn, in front of a fine old English country mansion, is 
covered with large oaks, and around it is a circular path 
made by Mr. Darwin in walking the lawn in his long 
periods of meditation. He seemed to have been a sort 
of Socrates in this respect, and it has made a profound 
impression on his neighbors. 



214 JEFFERSON dILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

They returned to London by rail, and that evening 
attended a performance at the Crystal Palace, a place 
where every nsitor does or ought to go. Here the light- 
ing was beyond anytliing they had ever imagined. The 
place is several miles out from the city, and in going on 
the train the Judge unfortunately got a cinder in one 
of Ms eyes that gave him great trouble and a poor op- 
portunity to enjo}^ the brilliant scene. The lights on 
the grounds were of ever}' color and seemed to be num- 
berless. A great castle was made of these, an immense 
birdge, a music stand, and the walks, lined on both sides 
with thousands of lights, wound their way through the 
shrubs and flowers. There was splendid music and the 
performance wound up with a grand ballet. They left 
immediately after, and happened to get into a car oc- 
cupied by a large number of those who had taken part m 
the dance. They were surprised to see how beautiful 
and fairy like they were on the stage, and how ignorant 
and common place they appeared off it. 

Next day the}'' went out about forty miles to see ^Ir. 
Palmer's herd of prize ^\^nning short horns, and horses. 
Mr. Palmer is ver}' wealthy and lives in the city, but 
they were well received by his manager and shown 
everything on the place. They amved after dinner, but 
as hungry as two wolves. However, they were invited to 
lunch, and were set down to a leg of cold mutton, and 
cider, equal, it appeared to them, to the best champagne. 
They had never seen any in America like it. How the 
.]udge did bemoan the fates that day, that denied him 
the privilege of eating mutton, particularly as he sat by 
and saw his son eat it ravenously and actually appear to 
enjoy the performance. 



PURCHASES. ^15 

The following day they left for York, 
Purchases. the very heart of the Cleveland Bay 

breeding district. They examined a 
large number of Yorkshire Bays as well as Clevelands, 
the former having an infusion of the thoroughbred 
blood, but they determined to adhere to their original 
intention and buy only the pure breed. They pur- 
chased a number of fine young horses around North 
Allerton, an excellent one at Stamford Bridge, and the 
best horse of the importation from ^Ir. Baker, of Ing- 
manthorpe Grange, called Ingmanthorpe Boy, No. 846. 
These horses were registered in the English Cleveland 
Bay stud book. 

They ran up to Manchester and had a look at that 
large manufacturing city, and that night saw a perform- 
ance at the theater by Mr. and ]\Irs. Kendall, w^ho after- 
. wards created such a fm*ore in America. They then 
went out to the fair at Altringham, where they had been 
invited by Mr. John Kirby, from whom they had made 
a purchase, and who was to be one of the judges in the 
light harness ring. Here they purchased a three year 
old Clyde-shire hoi-se. of gi-eat size and beauty, of Mr. 
John Brown, a tenant on the lower farm of Lord Eger- 
ton. They had not intended the purchase of any large 
horses, but when they thought of the sensation he would 
create, could not resist the temptation. They also se- 
cured an Exmoor pony that was afterwards sold to A. V. 
Goodpasture, and from which he has raised quite a herd. 
Before leaving Yorksliire, they visited the well known 
Booth farm of short horns. 

They had the stock collected at Liverpool. While 
waiting for the sailing of the boat, they attended a per- 



2l6 JKFFKRSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

formance at the Princess theater by Miss Mary Ander- 
son, in "A Winter's Tale."' This was one of her last 
appearances. She came to the United States soon after- 
wards for a tour but was taken sick and returned to 
England where she soon aftenvards married and retired 
from the stage. 

They shipped on the steamer Oranmore for Baltimore, 
where they landed without accident or loss of stock. 
xVfter resting a few days they shipped to Nashville, 
Judge Goodpasture accompanying the stock on the train 
and aiding in tlieir care. They arrived home the latter 
part of October, 1888. 



CHAPTER XIX. 

The following winter was pleasantly 
Prepares for ftn- ^^^^^^ attending to the stock and 
other Importation. mi t i i i i -i^ 

making sales. The Judge had built 

a nice double office near the stahle. where they had big 
fires, entertained numerous visitors and attended to a 
ver}' voluminous con-espondence, extending all over the 
United States and Southern Europe. Inquiries for 
jacks came in from exery section of the countiy from 
A'ermont to California, and scarcely a day passed, except 
Sunday, when they did not have ^^sito^s to see the stock. 
In the early spring, they closed out 
'"'''* the jack partnership with Lyles and 
Parmer, and prepared to make the largest importation 
of jacks ever yet made to America. Preparations were 
completed, and on May 4, 1889, the Judge and son 
sailed on the French steamer Bourgoyne for Havre. It 
was the year of the Paris International Exposition, and 
Judge Goodpasture had been appointed a commissioner 
to it. 

There was a full complement of passengers on board 
— quite a crowd of ]\Iexicans. all nice men, a number 
of negroes from Hayti and several South Americans. 
A negro woman of the party had a maid with her, who 
gave the most assiduous attention to her mistress, who 
was sea-sick most of the time. One woman of unknown 
nationality, who sat just opposite to them at the dining 
table, had such a heavy beard that she shaved ever}' 
morning. 



2lS JKFFKRSON DILLAKI) GOOt:)PASTtTRE. 

They did not stop at Havre, but went directly to Paris, 
stopping this time at the St. James Hotel on the rue 
St. Honore. On account of the great crowds coming to 
tlie exposition, they found hotel rates about double what 
they had previously been. 

One of the first places visited was the exposition, the 
greatest ever held up to that time, and, in many depart- 
ments, unexcelled since. They were particularly 
pleased with the beautiful architecture of the building-s. 
and greatly admired the Eifel tower. It is admitedly 
one of the greatest pieces of engineering of the time. It 
was gratifying to note that the elevators were put in by 
an American firm. The Ullages of the different nation- 
alities were very curious. Those who filled the African 
looked as familiar to the Judge as the occupants of 
a Southern cotton field. At night, they visited a Span- 
ish circus performing in the city. It was unlike any- 
thing seen before, and was one of the most enjoyable 
entertainments ever witnessed in Europe. 

From Paris they took the train direct for Bordeaux. 
On arrival, they found that other importers had gotten 
the interpreter Carles, and they had to search for an- 
other. They succeeded in getting an English speaking 
clerk out of the office of Th. Colimibier & Co.. ship 
brokers, a young fellow of abundant education but little 
else to recommend him. 

They hardly knew where to go. 

Some Good c'^talonia and the Cerdan were both 
Luck. . 

ovemm \nth importers, and tiiey did 

not desire to meet the competition. Leaving the bag- 
gage at BordeaiLx, they concluded to investigate an un- 
explored part of the French Pyrenees, and took a train 



GO TO POITOU. 219 

to a point near Tarbes. On the train a gentleman in- 
formed them that if they would get off at Lannemezan 
he was sure they coidd find what was wanted. They 
got off but found no jacks, and were advised to go to a 
certain town about twenty miles from the railroad. 
They went and were again disappointed. They returned 
to Lannemezan, intending to take the train for Bordeaux 
and then for Barcelona. But their innkeeper insisted 
on their at least going to Trie before leaving, where he 
was certain there were a few good jacks. They went 
but with little hope. Hei-e, to their suqjrise, they en- 
tered a section never before visited by an American im- 
porter, and, after a little investigation, found a large 
number of fine jacks. Most of them were of the Cata- 
lonian breed, though they bought a sixteen hand 
Majorca and two Poitous. For the first time they 
bought jennets as well as jacks. The price of these 
was very low and the quality good. They left home 
prepared to purchase the largest importation ' ever 
brought over, but their plans were yet enlarged by the 
opportunitiCvS presented. 

After buving all desired in that sec- 
Go to Poitou. 

tion, they returned to Bordeaux and 

drew four thousand dollars by telegraph from their 
Nashville bank, which was in addition to the amount of 
their letter of credit. They then went to Poitou, prin- 
cipally to the provinces of La Vendee and Deux-Sevres, 
and were a good deal around the towns of Poitcrs and 
Niort. They were greatly astonished at the appearahce 
of tliis race of jacks, none of which had ever been intro- 
duced into America. Prices were likewise astonishing. 
They sold here for about as much as do the Spanish m 



220 JEFFERSON DILLARD (iOODPAStURE. 

America, but their mules showed such great superiority 
over those of all other breeds, tliat they determined to 
import some at any cost. Their previous desire to get 
some of these jacks was greatly intensified by a visit to 
the chateau luid great farm of the Count of Exea. fle 
had two rarely good specimens of the Poitou Jack, and 
about one hundred and fifty Poitou mules, one and two 
}'ears old. The Count, who lived right among the 
Spanish breeds, told them that the progressive mule 
breeder in this day of low prices and close competition, 
could afford to keep and feed no other than the 
Poitou and make anything. The nniles would sell 
in the open market for almost a third more than 
the others. 

They found the French breedei-s greatly in advance 
of thedr own, that they had long maintained a stud book 
(limited to the Poitou breed) and published a monthly, 
with a lai'ge circulation, in the interest of mides and 
jacks. Besides, an excellent book had been gotten out 
on the subject. 

Judge Goodpasture made a large purchase of Poitous, 
both jacks and jennets, principally of M. Roy Phillippe 
and M. Sago, the latter being an officer of the s<tud book 
organization, and the gentleman who had reared the 
two great jacks they had seen at the Coimt of Exea.'s. 
They purchased, in order to advertise the breed and to 
give a proper appreciation of it, the finest and highest 
priced jack found in all Poitou. He was a two year old, 
15^ liands high, and a body and bone that dwarfed the 
ordinar}' jack stock. The bones of all Poitous are 
enormous in size, and the hair so long tliat they look like 
wild animals. 



TOULOUSE. 221 

After the completion of these purchases, they re>- 
tumed to the Pyrenees for those bought there, and col- 
lected them at Lannemezan, the nearest railroad station. 
The stock occupied several cars, and by a special dispen- 
sation, they were allowed to go on the train ^\^th the 
jacks. They arrived at Bordeaux a Httle after dayhght. 
The city lies on both side-s of the Geronne^ — about 35,000 
on one side and 350,000 people on the other. When 
they alighted from the train, the Judge could not tell on 
which side of the river they had stopped, and asked the 
interpreter, Mr. Duthil. "On zees side, saire,"' was the 
reply. "All right," said the Judge, ''I was afraid ^\e 
were on the other." 

As they came tlirough Toulouse thev 
Toulouse. ^^^^ delayed for several hours, which 
thev put in doing the town, though they had been there 
more than once before. The Judge took an interest in 
going to the market ^^'here horse flesh is sold and exam- 
ining the steaks, cuts and roasts. He said it looked 
rather good — a great deal better than mutton, and he 
thought it more civilized to eat it. His animosity was 
kept constantly alive on the mutton question, because 
it is found on the tables of France and Spain oftentr 
than any other meat except chicken. From the market 
they went to the place where the horses are slaughtered. 
Here such an infirmaiT of old cripples and broken down 
hacks were collected as no man ever saw outside of a 
horse eating country. All sorts of unfortunate horses 
were there, a good many mules and a few small jacks. 
The Judge thought they ought to be made to kill better 
fctock or stop the trade. There is no attempt at imposi- 
tion in the sale of this meat: it is sold strictly as horse 



222 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

meat. While passing through the city, a good many 
chickens were seen running at large on one of tlxe back 
streets. The Judge remarked to Duthil that in his 
country they would be stolen, and asked why it hap- 
pened that this did not occur here. "Because, sir," was, 
the reply, "in P'rance it is against the law to st^al." 
But the Judge paid him in his own coin at Havre. 

On ani^^ng with the stock at Bor- 
Ship Home. t /-i i 

deaux, W. H. Goodpasture went to 

Poitou and collected those there, and brought them to 
Bordeaux. They now had fifty-two head. They were 
unable to ship from this port again, and arranged for the. 
Persian Monarch to call for them at Ha^TC on her voy- 
age from London to Xew York. They shipped by rail 
from Bordeaux to Havre. They were gratified to find 
that Messrs. Kniffin and White, of Danville, 111., had 
purchased a few jacks in ^Majorca and had arranged to 
ship on the same boat. They had run short of funds, 
and the Judge proposed to loan them some, although 
he had never met them before. Duthil took him to one 
side and ad^•ised him not to do it. He said: "You do 
not know these men and how do you know you will not 
lose your money?'' "Because," replied the Judge, 
"these are not Frenchmen, but Americans." And Tou- 
louse was revenged. 

In the hotel at which the Judge stopped, he saw a 
large advertisement of the fiimitiu'e dealer, M. Bon- 
pa^teur. The English translation of this name is Good- 
pasture. He had previously seen a Bonpasteur street in 
Calais. These were the only times he had ever seen or 
heard of the name, outside of his own kindred in 
America, 



SHIP HOME. 223 

When the boat arrived at Havre, they led the jacks 
down to the steamer, and arranged \Wth the proprietor 
of the stable the stock had just occupied to haul do^ii 
the extra halters, blanl-cet^ and buckets. But tJiey never 
came; he thought it more profitable to steal them than 
be paid for their hauling. 

On the voyage they had much bad luck. They lost 
by death many of the Poitous. including the gi-eat two 
year old. He had such a fine coat of hair, long and 
silkv, that the captain had him skinned in order to 
make a robe of his liide. The next best of the lot wa.s 
a yearling Avhich also died. The losses, altogether, 
amounted to several thousand dollars. They had iew 
mishaps with the Catalonianf^, losing an excellent one. 
however, at Salamanca, New York. Xotwithstanding 
all tills, they landed in Xash^^lle with the largest and 
most expensive importation ever brought over. It re}> 
resented a greater investment than any importation be- 
fore or since that time, and re<iched high water mark in 
the business. When gotten home and stabled, they, 
with the horses and other jacks on hand, gave them a 
stable of above fifty thousand dollars worth of breeding 
stock for sale, assuming proportions never before ap- 
]>roached liy anyone in the jack business. 

This was the last importation made by Judge Good- 
pasture personally, though W. H. Goodpasture, in 
August, 1890, made an importation for the firm of 
twenty-one head, ten jacks and eleven jennets. The 
McKinley tarii!' bill having been passed during his 
absence, he had to pay a duty on landing them. Tins 
duty was a severe one. amounting to thirty clollnrs per 
capita and twenty per cenf ad valorem 



224 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

The finn, in the meautime, had. made the largest sale 
to Missuori parties ever made in a single transaction, 
amonnting to over eleven thousand dollars. The busi- 
ness earned the Judge much over the country — to Ken- 
tucky, Missomi and elsewhere. lie made no trips 
further West than Kansas City, though he sent several 
jacks by other parties to Texas, consisting mainly of the 
less valuable animals. 

The results of Judge Goodpastiire's 
esults of t e embarkation in the importation of 

live stock was far-reaching in its 
effect. Indeed, it may be truly said, that no man in the 
South has ever accomplished more. At the time he en- 
tered the business, less was Icnown of the different breeds 
of jacks and jennets than of any other character of live 
stock. This may be said to be true, even in those sec- 
tions in which they were best known, while in many 
parts of the country, there was absolute ignorance on 
the subject. 

Judge Goodpasture was himself wholly unacquainted 
with the different breeds when he began the importation 
business. It is a matter of the utmost importance that 
the jack breeding sections be made familiar with all the 
different races, because there is a vast difference between 
them, not only in appearance and color, but also in their 
value as adapted to our country. At the time the Judge 
entered the business, but two classes of imported jacks 
were commonly known to breeders, comprehended in 
the broad terms Spanish and Maltese, although in Spain 
there are three distinct breeds, differing as widely in ap- 
pearance and characteristics as do any of the varieties 
of hoj'ses or cattle, There wa& much reason for' this 



RESULTS OF THE BUSINESS. 225 

popular ignorance. Although the mule and jack are 
among our most ancient domestic animals, the latter 
antedating possibly the horse, and certainly our Chris- 
tian civilization, and notwithstanding the fact that the 
jack is the highest priced domestic animal known to 
man, still the field was absolutely barren as to litera- 
ture. There is no good reason known for this, but its 
effect was inevitable. Even the agricultural press paid 
little attention to him. 
15 



CHAPTER XX. 

The first importation made by Judge 
^*'* *"^^'"*'*" Goodpasture came from the Southern 
provinces of Spain, and were of the 
breed known as the Andalusian. In Tennessee, breed- 
ers had experimented some ^nth them, those first in- 
troduced having reached us through either Virginia or 
Kentucky. The king of Spain, in 1T87, presented lo 
General Wasliington a jack and jennet of tliis breed, 
the former being called the Royal Gift. About the same 
time, he was presented with a Maltese jack by the Mar- 
quis Lafayette. The Maltese jack was crossed on the 
Andalusian jennet, the result of which was a. very famous 
jack called Compound, that proved to be much more 
popular as a breeder than the Royal Gift, which was said 
to have been selected from the royal stud, and was near 
sixteen hands liigh, but ill shapen and ungainly. 

Not many years after tliis, the great orator and states- 
man, Henr}' Clay, imported a few Andalusians into Ken- 
tucky. No two men of the day could have added 
greater popularity to a breed, and being of a distinct- 
ively gray color, the cross in our native stock was accept- 
ed w ith little or no protest until the later importations of 
the distinctively black breeds. 

The Andalusian is one of the most distinctive of th( 
many races of jacks. As before said, they are foimd 
only in the Southern part of Spain, embracing the whole 
oi the kingdom of Andalusia, and are endently of an 



THE ANDALU8IAN JACK. 227 

ancient race, for we read of them, and the proiite arising 
from their use in propagating mules, during the Roman 
occupation and before the time of Christ. Columella, 
who, in the reign of the emporer Claudius, pubHshed a 
treatise, which lias been handed down to us, on the 
husbandr}' and economy of the Romans, gives very par- 
ticular directions for breeding jacks and mules. He 
was a native of Cadiz, Spain, owned large estates there, 
and teUs us that the best mules were raised in that part 
of the coimtry. But at this time, the best of the breed 
is found in and around the city of Cordova, 

As a race, they are distinctively gray in color, some- 
times, indeed, practically wliite, in rare instances black 
and occasionally blue. The larger ones, such as woidd 
ho selected by an importer, range from fourteen and a 
l-.alf to fifteen hands, though the country literally teems 
with small pack animals twelve or thirteen hands high. 
Tliey have a most excellent leg, the" bone is large and 
firm, and freer than are the other breeds from what is 
.■ommonly known as jack sores, viz., a running sore that 
t^i [.pears on the inside of the knee and hock, and wliich 
•sometimes gives a great deal of trouble. They have a 
fairly good head and ear and are really a meritorious 
jack. \Miile many have been imported, they axe not 
now popular on account of their color. Judge Good- 
pasture frankly admitted the objection, and abandoned 
them after a single importation. Even that one was 
made because of a lack of information. 

We have heard at least one importer complain of their 
not breeding regularly; this has not been our observa- 
tion of them. So far as we have seen, they are as much 
to be depended upon in this respect as any others. The 



228 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

cros8 of the breed is now scattered all over the country, 

as in addition to those brought over before the war, the} 

have been imported in the last few years by Mr. Lyles, 

of Kentucky, Goodpasture and Hill, of Tennessee, 

Messrs. Leonard, of Missouri, and in 1889 quite a large 

importation by a firm in Arkansas. 

After Henry Clay's importation of 

^^^ Andalusians, his son went to Spain 

Catalonian. 

in the consular or diplomatic service, 

and while there, sent to his father's Kentucky home an 
excellent specimen of the black breed, supposedly the 
Catalonian. So much pleased was Mr. Clay with this 
jack that a year or two later he imported a number of 
others. A picture of one of these ornaments one of the 
rooms in the old homestead at Ashland. Mr. A. C. 
Franklin made a small importation to Tennessee many 
years ago, purchased, it is understood, around Barce- 
lona. These were, undoubtedly, Catalonians, and some 
of them became famous breeders. 

Judge Goodpasture, in making a second importation, 
determined to find the black breed. He found them hi 
the Xorth of Spain, principally in the province of Cata- 
lonia, but, later, he discovered the same breed in the 
Pyrenees of France. No jacks had been imported as 
far South as Tennessee for many years until he revived 
the business. He brought over from Catalonia the 
largest and most select importations that had ever been 
made, and for the first time made prominent the cliar- 
acteristics of the different Spanish races. 

The Catalonian is a very popular jack, and jvistly so. 
For the propagation of mules of a certain quality they 
are unsurpassed. They have many valuable qualities, 



THE CATALONIAN. 229 

and among these is that of color. Sunburned blacks arc 
sometimes seen, but the great majority have a very 
glossy, jet black coat of short hair that is greatly sought 
after. Besides, they are a jack of good size, varj-ing 
from fourteen and a half to fifteen hands, in some in- 
stances reaching sixteen hands or higher. While they 
have not a large bone, it is a very fiat, clean one. They 
have great style and beauty, and are of superb action, 
and many have been used in the best jennet herds of the 
country. 

The area from which they come covers some hundreds 
of miles, extending from the Mediterranean coast in the 
Xorth of Spain to the French side of the Pyrenees, tak- 
ing in what is known as the Cerdan, which lies partly in 
France and partly in Spain. Although they are foimd 
in both countries, they are still bred only in the moun- 
tains of the Pyrenees. They are scattered all over the 
South of France bordering these mountains, about Tou- 
louse, Tarbes, Pau and elsewhere. These were, never- 
theless, imported from their mountain fastnesses as colts 
to take their places in the stud when sufficiently old. 
Many of the best Catalonian jacks introduced into this 
country have been purchased in France. Judge Good- 
pasture made two entire importations from there and one 
from the Cerdan. 

For style and action they are possibly unequaled, cer- 
tainly not sm'passed, by any other race. This is noted 
too with great force in the case of jennets. Our native 
jennet stock are proverbially dull and lazy; they move 
about in the most composed manner, with an entire 
lack of appreciation of modem ideas of "get up and go." 
Such a thing as playing in pasture or paddock is far 



230 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

beneath their sense of dignity and decorum. Age fas- 
tens upon their feelings and spirits long before they 
reach the responsibilities of being matrons. But the 
imported will play and run about their lot like colts, 
and some of them can trot equal to a horse. The Judge 
was, on one occasion, while buying, driving on a gov- 
ernment road in France. His team was a spirited pair 
of Tarbes horses, with a great deal of the oriental Arab- 
ian blood coursing through their veins. The driver was 
no less spirited; a defeated soldier of France in their late 
clash -nith Germany, he still had enough of the fire of 
enthusiasm left to tiy to pass ever}-thing on the road. 
The Judge saw ahead of him, driving at a smart gait, a 
man in a two wheeled vehicle, drawn by a fine looking 
jennet, and ordered the driver to overtake what promised 
to be a valuable acquisition to his purchases. This was 
what the driver wanted to do any way, so he cracked his 
whip and st-arted off at a merry clip, but the man with 
the jennet refused for sometime to be overtaken, and the 
Judge had to drive for a full half mile, at the limit of 
his speed, before coming alongside of him. It is need- 
less to say that he purchased the jennet, and she was 
afterwards sold at a long price in the United States. 

One rarely sees a drop-eared animal in the breed, 
and when he does, it generally has some physical cause, 
such as a hurt in shipping, disease or something of the 
kind. The race are most excellent breeders, a« they 
have proven in all the jack producing states, their mules 
being handsome, quick, active and good sellers, and it 
is said that they mature very early. Judge Goodpasture 
imported a very large number of the breed, and they are 
now scattered all over the West and South, and the good 



THE MAJORCA. 23 1 

effect upon the breeding interests can scarcely be over- 
estimated. 

.. , Another of the popular breeds im- 

7 he Majorca. ■, ^, 

ported by Judge Goodpasture was the 

Majorca. Attention was called to the great size and 
black color of these jacks in a letter to the Nashville 
American by the firm, ■wTitten from Spain, sometime 
before any of them had been imported to America. 
They are found, principally, on the larger of the Bal- 
earic islands, known as Majorca, and, so far as is known, 
the Judge^s firm was the first American importers to 
visit the island. 

Majorca lies in the Mediterranean, about fifteen hours 
sail by steamer from Barcelona. The breed of jacks 
found here is one of the purest in Spain. As far back 
as 1825, Mr. Pomeroy, in an essay before the Mar}dand 
Agricultural Society, says: ''So much have been the 
ravages of war and anarchy in Spain for a long time past, 
that the fine race of jacks that country once possessed 
have become almost extinct. In Majorca, hoAvever, and 
probably some parts of the coast opposite, the large 
breed may yet be obtained in its purity." Mr. Pomeroy 
had not discovered that they were a distinct race from 
those found on the mainland, but his remark illustrates 
the fame of the island for a large breed of jacks at even 
this early day. 

They are possibly the largest jacks ever imported, cer- 
tainly the tallest, and have been much sought after for 
jennet purposes. Their bone is exceedingly large with 
a body to correspond. While they are black, they rarely 
have that glossy color so admired in the Cata.lonian, but 
those brought to this coimtry will average almost a hand 



232 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

taller than the latter. In Europe, they rank about the 
same, both being regarded as superior to the Andalusian. 
But they are not destined to cut any gi'eat figure in thi.< 
country; their number is too limited, and there is no 
\vay in which to greatly augment it. The island from 
\yhieh they are imported is small, and has been literally 
stripped of its most meritorious animals. What few 
have been brought to this country, have been scattered 
to the four quarters of the earth. No jennets have been 
imported, and under the present tariff, none are likely to 
be, so that in a few years, there will not be a pure bred 
Majorca in the country. 

They have not been here long enough to fully demon- 
strate their value as a cross on the native stock, but in 
Europe, for a large, heavy class of mules, they outrank 
the other Spanish breeds, but are inferior for the propa- 
gation of the smaller and more stylish animal. The 
Spanish government obtians a large part of her artillery 
mules from Majorca, and the English government have 
been importing them for the transport senice in Egypt 
and elsewhere. 

As to height, those brought to this countrj- will aver- 
age about fifteen and a half hands, and are more uniform 
in size than the Catalonian. A good many have been 
exported to South America, and at prices that are as- 
tonishing. Two sold there a few years ago, are reported 
to have gone at $900.00 each, which, if all expenses are 
added, makes a pretty good figure for a country con- 
sidered by us so far in the rear of North American 
civilization. 

Their heads are enormous, and are inclined to a bulky 
appearance. "While they have the longest and largest 



THE POITOU. 233 

ears of any race in existence, they are not so erect and 
piercing as some others, nor have they the style and 
action; in fa(5t, they may be said to incline to sluggish- 
ness. Judge Goodpasture imported a sixteen hand jack 
of this breed, and a two year old colt fifteen and one 
half hands, but as the former was sold to Georgia and 
the latter to Texas, he never knew anything as to the 
value of their progeny. 

Judge Goodpasture was not only the 
first to import and introduce the 
Poitou breed, but the last to try the experiment, no 
other importer caring to risk the amount necessary to 
buy and bring them over, their cost being quite double 
that of the other breeds. 

Their early history is most interesting. They are to 
be found in the province of Poitou, knowTi as the granary 
of France — in the richest and most fertile part of that 
most fertile of all countries, and are especially abundant 
in the departments of La Vendee and Deux-Sevres. 

In 1866, Mr. Eugene Ayrault, of Niort, France, pub- 
libhed a volume on the Piotou jack. It is a book of a 
high order of merit, and was awarded a gold medal b} 
the Society of Agriculture in France, is the only book 
known to the writer published on jacks, and is confined 
to a single breed. We give his description of these 
jacks. He says: 

"His head is enormous in size, and is very much larger 
than that of any other race in existence. His mouth is 
smaller than that of the horse; teeth small, but the 
enamel exceedingly hard. The opening of the nostril 
is narrow, the ear very long, and adorned with long 
ourly hair, called cadanette, which is much esteemed 



234 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

bj' breeders. It is said that animals with the longest 
bodies produce the best mules, and tliis is greatly looked 
to. The tail is rather sliort, and furnished with, long 
hair at its extremity only. The chest is very broad, and 
the belly voluminous. The shoulders are short; the 
muscles of the forearm long, but not very thick. The 
knees are exceedingly large, as are all the Joints. The 
cliestnuts or horny places near the knees, are large and 
v/ell developed. The abundance of hair which covers 
the jack constitutes one of the most sought for qualities. 
The animals are called well taloned or well mustached 
when they have these qualities in a high degree. 

"The mane is long and fine, the skin smooth, the 
hair fine and silky in texture. "We give gi'eat preference 
to large feet, for which this breed is noted. The skin 
is almost universally black or dark brown. The gray 
jack, though seldom met, is rejected by good mule breed- 
ers. The animals which have the end of the nose black, 
and whose bodies are wholly of this color, are said to be 
lacking in breeding. The sldn and coating of the jack 
is very important, and it is thought that the mules from 
a jack superior in this respect, mature earlier." 

Such is Mr. Ayrault's description of them. We will 
add, that they are physically the most powerful of any 
race yet discovered; they have greater weight and more 
bone and substance generally. They are not exceedingly 
tall, their legs being very short, but in a cross with a 
mare of fair size the mule will be found to have all the 
height desired. During the Judge's visit to Paris, Mar- 
seilles and other French towns, the Poitou mules seen 
would average not less than sixteen hands with a size 
and weight never approached by those seen in America. 



THE POITOU. 235 

The first impression one gains of a Poitou is not a 
favorable one. They are never trimmed or groomed, 
and we are imaceustomed t« their long hair and bulky 
appearance. The demand for them is such that it can- 
not be supplied, and even French breeders in certain 
parts of the country are forced to use the Catalonian and 
Majorca. Their price is enough to stagger one, con- 
sidered from a European standpoint. Mr. AjTault says 
that $1,000 to $1,200 is ordinary, while $2,000 for a 
single animal is not uncommon. 

Large numbers of Poitou mules are imported into 
Spain for draft purpo&es, and especially by the large 
firm of San Marti and son of Barcelona, who supply 
mules both to the government and to individuals. In 
Spain, their price is very much higher than that of the 
native stock. The province from which they come is 
hardly larger than one of our ordinary counties, yet in 
1866, the latest statistics at hand, fifty thousand mares 
were bred to jacks, and the yearly export of young mules 
amounted to between two and three millions of dollars. 
Mule breeding there, for profit, is without a parallel in 
agriculture. 

Judge Goodpasture imported quite a large number of 
both jacks and jennets from Poitou. It was in vain that 
he called attention to the many conclusive facts estab- 
lishing the superiority of the breed. It was impossible 
to overcome the antiphathy of American breeders to a 
coat of hair six or eight inches long, and their enormous 
bulk of body. The best price he received for one of 
these jacks was fifteen hundred dollars. It may be. 
however, that the seed was planted, and that the progeny 
of this importation will, in time, prove to the progressive 



236 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. 

breeder their value to the farmer. The Poitoii is the 

only jack that has been bred for any length of time upon 

the highest scientific principles. 

The firm, in addition to bringing 

^ ^® about a new birth to the importation 
Accomplished. 1 ,. , . 

business, publishing the first jack cut 

ever to appear in a paper, importing the best jack ever 

brought to America, conducting the business on a scale 

never before approached, and introducing to the public 

new and better breeds, inaugurated other reforms of the 

gTeatest importance to the jack producing sections. 

In every census previous to 1890, mules and jacks had 
been enumerated together under the general designa- 
tion of mules and asses. This was very misleading. 
For instance, it is notorious that there are few jacks and 
jennets in Shelby County, Tennessee, yet it was broadly 
put down in the census as having more mules and as*os 
than any c'ounty in the United States. Again, David- 
son Count}^ Tennessee, having more jacks than any 
other county in the State, ranks comparatively low in 
number of mules and asses when enumerated together. 
Hence, before the census of 1890 was taken, the firm 
wrote Superintendent Porter, giving all the facts, and 
calling attention to the misleading character of all pre- 
vious censuses. They likewise wrote and obtained the 
active assistance of the senators and congressmen from 
the jack breeding states, and an order was obtained, 
having the census of 1890 taken separately, thus giving 
the jack sections proper credit for that year. 

The finn also assisted in the organization of the 
American Breededs' Association of Jacks and Jennets. 
An elaborate article was published by them in the 



WHAT WAS ACCOMPLISHED. 237 

Farmer's Home Journal, of Louisville, Kentucky, ad- 
vocating strongly such an association, and several letters 
were received by the firm asking them to inaugurate the 
enterprise. Afterwards Mr. Chas. F. Mills, of Spring- 
field, 111., who was not a jack man but an official in the 
state agricultural department, undertook and carried 
through the preliminary organization. Subsequently 
permanent organization was effected at Chicago, of which 
Hon. Chas. E. Leonard, a prominent breeder of Missouri, 
was made president, and W. H. Goodpasture, secretary. 
Mr. Goodpasture, as secretary, wrote a great deal on the 
subject of jacks and the stud-book to the agricultural 
press of the country, and in 1890, he issued a valuable 
annual in behalf of the association. In 1891, volume 
one of the American Jack Stock Stud-Book was pub- 
lished by him and it, together Avith the Annual, consti- 
tuted tlie first distinctive jack literature to make its 
appearance in America. 

Judge Goodpasture, being a member of the association, 
attended its meetings and greatly aided in the success it 
attained. The firm labored incessantly for its advance- 
ment, and raised the jack business to a commanding 
position never before occupied by it. 

As noted in the earlier pages of this book. Judge 
Goodpasture also made the first direct importation of 
Cleveland Bay horses to the South. They were a most 
superior lot, and added much to the breeding interests 
of the country. 



CHAPTER XXI. 

This j)ractically ended the active and 

ic ness business career of Judere Goodpast- 
and Death. ° ^ 

lire. About this time A. V. Good- 
pasture was appointed Clerk of the Supreme Court, and 
W. PI. Goodpasture entered the office as deputy. This 
broke up the firm, and Judge Goodpasture devoted some 
time to selHng the stock on hand, collecting the debts 
and closing out the multifarious business that accumu- 
lates in every venture of importance. 

For a while, he still dealt some in real estate, but for 
the last three years of his life he was in bad health and 
did little. In 1893, accompanied by one of his daugh- 
ters, he visited the World's Fair at Chicago, and wrote 
up some of his observations on that great exposition, but 
never had the article published. 

lie took few cases in the courts after this, and what 
he did have were before the Supreme Court. lie spent 
a good deal of his time in the clerk's office, not only be- 
cause his sons were there, but because he met lawyers 
a.'^d friends from all over Middle Tennessee. It was a 
good place to smoke and talk. His sons kept a box of 
smoking tobacco always on hand for the use of them- 
si'lves and the bar, but found it difficult to keep pipes. 
The Judge bought a half bushel of liis favorite liickory 
[lipos with cane stems, and sent them up. After this, 
there was Httle trouble on the pipe question. 

He took a severe case of the grip in the winter of 
1892-3. For a time afterwards, he would get better in 



SICKNESS AND DEATH. 239 

summer and then worse in winter. It is a disea&e 
sufficiently bad for the young and robust, but with a man 
of his age, it seems almost impossible to get entirely nd 
of it. It sapped his great energy, and gave him a dis- 
inclination to carry on business of consequence. 

His mind ran much on the past, on the struggles of 
his early life, on the people he had known and met, 
and personal reminisences. Xo matter how much con- 
versation lagged, it was never much trouble to aroiise his 
interest by an inquiry as to some odd character he had 
known many years before, or ask him to relate one of 
Ms favorite anecdotes. These were never second hand, 
but always an occurrence happening under his own 
observation. 

But disease had begun to undermine his powerful 
frame and constitution. His family could see it, but as 
he retained his flesh, it was not so apparent to Ms friends. 
He grew to have a disinclination to go out in town, and 
spent most of his time at home. On Sunday afternoon, 
their only leisure time, one or both his sons living m 
Xashville, would go out and see him. These w*ere al- 
ways delightful occasions to them. 

He never lost interest in the general public, and care- 
fully read the daily papers. One of his last attempts at 
going out was to hear j\Ir. Br}'an speak, and he came 
liome that night thoroughly exhausted. 

He was at last taken down, though he would' not go 
to bed, occupying a big, roomy, office chair. He had 
never believed in sending for doctors except in extrenne 
cases, and never felt that he himself needed one. But 
Dr. Ewing was summoned. The patient grew steadily 
worse, and the illness was pronomiced that dread disease. 



240 JEFFERSON DlLLARD GOODPASTURE. 

Bright's. The fact was not disclosed to him, and it is 
not certain that he knew that his sickness was to be 
fatal. If so, he never disclosed it. The absent son, 
Eev. J. R. Goodpasture, was sent for, and arrived at the 
bedside in time to help nurse and minister to his wants. 
His suffering for some days was extreme. The devotion 
of his wife was intense and untiring. She was present 
with liim day and night, and watched \vdth an unflagging 
zeal to allay some pain . or gratify some desire. She 
relinquished sleep and refused rest, and nursed him as 
only a wife can. Dr. John G. Goodpasture, his brother, 
came from his home at Carthage, Tennessee, to see him, 
but was never fully recognized by him. On November 
2, 1896, he died, and, according to his own often ex- 
pressed wish, his funeral, like the life he had lived, was 
simple and unostentatious. 

Little need be said of Judge Goodpastiu-e's character 
beyond what is developd in these pages. He lived an 
uncommonly busy life, and never knew an idle period. 
He hafi been heard to say that in early life he had some 
temper, but he had gained a complete mastery over it. 
and had one of the gentlest and most lovable natures 
imaginable. He had a great deal of charity for the 
short comings and faults of others, more than almost 
anyone. If an individual deeply wronged him, he v\'Ould 
feel hurt and provoked for a time, but we have never 
known any one who could so quickly forget and forgive. 
The occm-rence was completely effaced, and did not 
leave even a scar. And he would take the first oppor- 
tunity to show it to him who had committed it. 

He was a philosopher. If things occurred, as they do 
in all active careers almost constantly, that were cal- 



SICKNESS AND DEATH. 24I 

dilated to worry and annoy, he would study and reflect 
over it, try to see the good in it, and never take his 
mind from it until he had reached a satisfactory con- 
clusion. This philosophical habit of treating all the 
unpleasant happenings of life, was a prominent and valu- 
able feature of his character that was very striking to 
those who knew him intimately enough to observe it. 

He loved his family with an intense and sacrificing 
devotion, and was always ready to kindly aid, console or 
advise. Thus died a busy man, who never intentionally 
wronged a human being in his life. He was a member 
of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and his funeral 
was conducted by Rev. Ira Landrith assisted by Rev. 
Angus McDonald. 
16 



APPENDIX. 



THE FAMILY OF 
CAPTAIN JAMES GOODPASTURE. 



FIRST GENERATION. 

No. 1. 

JameB Goodpasture was one of the pioneers of the Wolf's 
Hill, or Abingdon settlement, in Virginia, where all his 
children were born except the youngest. He emigrated to 
Tennessee in the latter part of the eighteenth century, 
and located, first, near Southwest Point, a Federal fort 
on the Indian line. But in 1800 he moved west, across the 
Indian territory, called the wilderness, and made a per- 
manent settlement on Flat Creek, then in Smith, but now 
in Overton County. When the Indian title to the wilderness 
was extinguished, and Overton County erected, he was 
elected captain in its first military organization. He was 
a great admirer and partisan of President Jefferson, for 
whom his youngest son, born two months after his in- 
auguration, was named. He married a Miss Hamilton .n 
1776, and had eight children. He died about 1820. 

2. William, born June 4, 1777; died March 15, 1848. 

3. John, born November 4, 1778; died July 28, 1864. 

4. James. 

5. Martha. 

6. Arthur. 

7. Margaret. 

8. Abraham. 

9. Jefferson, born May 13, 1801; died in September, 1857. 



246 GENEALOGY OF THE 

SECOND GENERATION. 

No. 2. 

William Goodpasture, son of James and (Ham- 
ilton) Goodpasture, was born in Washington County, Vir- 
ginia. He did not go West with the other members of his 
father's familj', but remained on the old homestead, where 
he died. He married Sarah Lockhart (1778-1840) and had 
seven children. 

10. V/m. Lockhart, born May 14, 1803; died Sept. 22, 1889. 

11. Martha Hamilton, born Nov. 7, 1805; died Sept. 4, 1854. 

12. Mary Campbell, born Jan. 25, 1808; died July 15, 1872. 

13. Abraham Hamilton, born July 10, 1810; died Septem- 
ber 8. 1854. ^ 

14. Elizabeth Lockhart, born May 12, 1813; died January 
VJ, 1882. 

15. Margaret B., bprn Dec. 6. 1815; died March 15, 1885. 

16. Jane Campbell, born Jan. 4, 1817; died June 14, 1848. 

No. 3. 

John Goodpasture, son of James and (Hamilton) 

Goodpasture, was a native of Virginia, who emlgiated to 
Tennessee in the latter part of the eighteenth century, and 
settled near Hilham, in Overton County, in 1800. He was 
a Justice of the Peace, and a leading citizen in his com- 
munity. He married Margery (1786-1864), daughter of 
V/illiam Bryan, in 1803, and had fourteen children. 

17. Mary R., born January 24, 1805; died April 20, 1893. 

18. Martha H., born Dec. 28, 1S06; died August 1, 1876. 

19. Nancy B., born December 25, 1807; died July 12, 1891. 

20. Levina, born October 27, 1808; died August 20, 1885. 

21. William B., born August 25, 1810; died April 4, 1893. 

22. Abraham H., born June 21, 1812; died Sept. 21, 1885. 

23. Elizabeth B., born May 27, 1814; died January 1, 1897. 

24. Esther A., born August 26, 1816; died Februarj- 15, 1896. 

25. Andrew B., born July 16, 1818; died April 17, 1842. 

26. Margaret Ann, born March 21, 1820; died Dec. 25, 1890. 



GOODPASTURE FAMILY. 247 

27. Jokn G., born April 21. 1822. 

28. Jefferson D., born August 3, 1824; died Nov. 2, 1896. 

29. James McD., born April 17, 1827; died August 11, 1876. 
SO. Winburn W., born October 20, 1828. 

No. 4. 

James Goodpasture, son of James and ( Hamilton > 

Goodpasture, was born in Virginia, and emigrated with his 
father to Tennessee. He married in Overton County, Ten- 
nessee, where he died in earlj' manhood, leaving two sons, 
the elder of whom was raised by his brother Abraham, and 
the younger by his brother John. 

31. Madison. 

32. Jefferson. 

No. 5. 



Martha Goodpasture, daughter of James and 

(Hamilton) Goodpasture, married a Mr. Willard and movea 
to Illinois, many years ago. No other information. 

No. 6. 

Arthur Goodpasture, son of James and (Hamil 

ton) Goodpasture, was born in Virginia and died in Over- 
ton County, Tennessee. He has many descendants in Ten 
nessee and Illinois, but we have not been able to get any 
information from them in time for this publication. We 
give the names of such of his children as are known to us. 

33. Robert M. 

34. William I., born Sept. 29, 1815; died August 23, 1891. 

35. Abraham H. 

36. Malinda. 
87. Sarah. 

38. A daughter. 

No. 7. 

Margaret Goodpasture, daughter of James and 

(Hamilton) Gtoodpasture, married Andrew McClain, and 
lired in Knox County, Tennessee. No other information. 



248 GENEALOGY OF THE 

No. 8. 

Abraham Goodpasture, son of James and (Hamil 

ton) Good past ui'e, was born in Virginia and moved with 
his father to Overton County. Tennessee, whence he subae- 
quently moved to Morgan County, Illinois. He had nine 
children. 

39. William. 

40. Abraham. 

41. Alexander. 

42. Hamilton, born in 1808. 

43. Jane. 

44. John. 

45. Hannah. 

46. Mai-tha. 

47. Elizabeth. 

No. 9. 

Jefferson Goodpasture, son of James and (Hamil- 
ton) Goodpasture, was the only one of his father's children 
born after he settled in the present county of Overton, in 
Tennessee. He married Nancy Allen (1805-1864) in 1827, 
and had nine children. 

48. Mary M., born December 7, 1828; died August, 1857. 

49. Francis M., born May 10, 1830. 

50. James H., born December 11, 1831; died June, 1854. 

51. Marena, bom March 16, 1833; died, 1890. 

52. Thomas C, born October 28, 1834; died January 8, 1862. 

53. M^linda E., born September 23, 1837. 

54. Eliza E., born August 23, 1841; died, 1865. 

55. Sarah C, born September, 1843; died, 1890. 

56. William P., born October 26, 1845; died, 1871. 

THIRD GENERATION. 

No. 10. 

William Lockhart Goodpasture, son of William and Sarav 
(Lockhart) Goodpasture, married Jane White, July 31, 1834, 
and had five children. 



GOODI^ASTURa FAMILY, 249 

57. A. W., born June TO, 1885. 

58. Hugh W., born September 25, 1837. 

59. Ellen W. W., born June 11, 1839. 

60. Jamea L., born August 10, 1845. 

61. Mary Campbell, born April 7, 1849. 

Na 11. 

Martha Hamilton Goodpasture, daughter of William and 
Sarah (Lockhart) Goodpasture, married John T. Sprinkle, 
October 27, 1825, and had ten children. 

62. Mary Terrel, bom November 20, 1826. 

63. Charles Henry, born Nov. 1, 1830; died Jan. 8, IS'jI. 

64. William Emlar, born June 31, 1832; died April 16, 1S63. 

65. Sarah Elizabeth, born May 5, 1834. 

66. Naomi, born Sept. 25,1836; died Jan. 22, 1845. 

67. Ferdinand Archibald, born December 11, 1838; died 
November 23, 1860. 

68. Susana Jane Ganaway, born February 5, 1841. 

69. Levicie Bowen, born Jan. 28, 1843; died Sept. 2, 1854. 

70. Narcissa Cecil, born December 21, 1844. 

71. Virginia Graves, born August 20, 1850; died September 
13, 1854. 

No. 12. 

Mary Campbell Goodpasture, daughter of William and 
Sarah (Lockhart) Goodpasture, married James Fleming, 
and had children. 

72. William. 

No. 13. 

Abraham Hamilton Goodpasture, son of William ami 
Sarah (Lochart) Goodpasture, married Sarah M. Humphrey 
(1814- ), November 28, 1833, and had eleven children. 

73. William Hamilton, born September 5, 1834. 

74. Sarah Margaret, born February 3, 1836. 

75. David Washington, born September 29, 1837; diod 
.-vugust, 1863. 

76. EUen Virginia, born August 7, 1839. 

77. S. F., bom May 31, 1841; died in infancy. 



350 GENEALOGY OF THE 

78. E. A., born October 24. 1843. 

79. Elizabeth St. Clair, born October 18. 1845; died Sep- 
tember 7, 1854. 

80. Jane Lockhart. born October 28, 1847. 

81. John Henry, born Jan. 18, 1850; died Sept. 12, 1854. 
85. Caaper Winton, born January 25. 1852; died January 

14, 1854. 

83. Abraham Hamilton, born October 4, 1854. 

No. 14. 

Elizabeth Lockhart Goodpasture, daughter of William 
and Sarah (Lockhart) Goodpasture, married Roland Wolfe, 
September 21, 1848, and had five children. 

84. Ellen V., born April 21, 1850; died May 15, 1884. 

85. Sarah M., born October 29, 1851. 

86. Maggie F., born March 26, 1854. 

87. Melissa F., born April 12, 1856; died December 22, 1860. 

88. Emma C, born November 6, 1857. 

No. 15. 

Margaret B. Goodpasture, daughter of William and Sarah 
(Lockhart) Goodpasture, married William Rector, and haa 
children. 

89. James. 

No. 17. 

Mary R. (Polly) Goodpasture, daughter of John and Mar- 
gery (Bryan) Goodpasture, was born in Overton County, 
Tennessee. She married Abraham W. Carlock (1800-1884), 
April 10, 1825, and settled near Bloomington, in McLean 
County, Illinois, where she died. She had twelve children. 

90. John G., born January 28, 1826; died April 25, 1888. 

91. Martha, bom June 21, 1827; died August 25, 1828. 

92. Madison P., bom April 16, 1829. 

93. Nancy J., born January 9, 1831; died March 5, 1868. 

94. Sarah, born January 9, 1833. 

95. Mahaia, bom January 9, 1835. 
99. Reuben, born June 17, 1837. 



GOODPASTUR* FAMILY. 25 1 

97. Levina, born December 17, 1839. 

98. William B., boru March 15, 1842. 

99. Mary, born April S, 1844; died March 26, 1869. 

100. Abraham H., bom August 21, 1846. 

101. Margery, born October 20, 1849; died August 6, 1819. 

No. 18. 

Martha H. (Patsy) Goodpasture, daughter of John and 
Margery (Bryan) Goodpasture, was bom in Overton 
County, Tennessee. She married William Dale (1806-1877) 
in 1827, and settled on Cumberland River, in Clay County, 
Tennessee, where she died. She had eleven children. 

102. Levina, born October, 1828; died November 6, 1854. 

103. John Dillard, born in 1829; died in infancy. 

104. William Jackson, bora December, 1831; died Sep 
tember 20, 1863. 

105. Elizabeth, born October, 1833. 

106. Wilbum Hamilton, born October, 1835. 

107. Cleon Easailus, born December 31, 1837. 

108. Alfred Lafayette (twin), born November 30, 1840. 

109. Andrew Columbus (twin), born November 30, 1840. 

110. John Francis, born October 31, 1842. 

111. Dulcena, born July, 1846; died in 1882. 

112. Dillard Goodpasture, born July 12, 1848; died October 
18, 1854. 

No. 19. 

Nancy B .Goodpasture, daughter of John and Margery 
(Bryan) Goodpasture, was born in Overton County, Ten- 
nessee, and married Rev. Joseph H. Bate« (1806-1888), 
March 11, 1828; moved to Illionis in 1830, and died at Lin- 
coln, in that State. She had fourteen children. 

113. William Iredell (twin), bora December 15, 1828. 

114. Mary Elzada (twin), born December 15, 1828. 

115. John Russell, bora January 22, 1830. 

116. Hettie Elizabeth, died in Infancy. 

117. Thomas Jefferson, bora February 21, 1833. 

118. Pennelia Jane, born October 11, 1864; di»d July 25, 
1882. 



25i GENEALOGY OF THE 

119. Madison Canby, born July 7, 1836. 

120. Margery Josephine, born January 30, 1839. 

121. Joseph Baxter, born January 11, 1841. 

122. Abraham Henderson (twin), born December 30, IS 12. 

123. Dulcena (twin), born December 30, 1842; died in in- 
fancy. 

124. Marquis Jerome, born April 23, 1845; died December 
28, 1872. 

136. Margaret Ann, born July 20, 1847. 

126. Harriet Rosanna, bom March 17, 1850; died July 23, 
1876. 

No. 20. 

Levina Goodpasture, daughter of John and Margery 
(Bryan) Goodpasture, was born in Overton County, Ten- 
nessee. In 1830, she married Thomas Dale, now in the 
eighty-seventh year of his age, and moved to Illinois. 
Returning, they subsequently moved to Dade County, Mis- 
souri, where she died. She had nine children. 

127. Marrillena, born in 1831; died May, 1855. 

128. Margery, born in 1832; died in infancy. 

129. Edward, born 1834; di«d in infancy. 

130. W. A., born January 17, 1836. 

181. John W., born July 17, 1837; died September, 1870. 

132. Abraham B., born May 22, 1839; died in 1862. 

133. Tennessee, born 1841; died 1861. 

134. Thomas A., bom 1843; died 1867. 

135. Mary M., born 1845. 

No. 21. 

William B. Goodpasture, son of John and Margery 
(Bryan) Goodpasture, was born in Overton County, Ten- 
nessee, and was married four times. First, to Jane A. 

( -1835), June 29, 1830; second, to Martha Ann 

Harville ( -1855), September 21. 1S36; third, to Adelphia 

Smith, December 20, 1855; and, fourth, to , 

January 15, 1885. He settled in Sangamon County, Illinois, 
where he died. He had twelve children. 



■ GOODPASTURE FAMILY. 253 

BY HIS FIRST WIFE. 

136. John F., born September 26, 1832; died September 26, 
1836. 

BY HIS SECOND WIFF. 

137. Azaxiah Thomas, bom September 17, 1837; died 
October 15, 1863. 

138. Mary Margery, born January 12, 1839; di6d July, I860. 

139. James Harden, born May 4, 1840; died in infancy. 

140. Andrew Seymour, bom March 9, 1842. 

141. Lucy Dulcena, bora January 25, 1844. 

142. William Brastus, born November 25, 1845. 

143. Philander CaBS, bom June 9, 1848. - 

144. McGrady, bom September 20, 1850; died July 30, 1851. 

145. Martha Ann, born April 7, 1853; died June 26, 1873. 

146. Levi Dodds, born January 28, 1855. 

BY HIS THIRD WIFE. 

147. Jesse Fletcher, born September 25, 1856. 

No. 22. 
Abraham H. Goodpasture, son of John and Margery 
(Bryan) Goodpasture, was bom in Overton County, Ten- 
nessee, and died in Petersburg, Illinois. He professed re- 
ligion October 17, 1833, and in November of the same year, 
became a candidate for the ministry, under the care of the 
Elyton (Alabama) Presbytery, of the Cumberland Presby- 
terian Church; was licensed April 25, and preached his first 
sermon May 3, 1835; moved to Illinois, and became a mem- 
ber of Sangamon Presbytery, and was very active in the 
work of the ministry. From the journal, which he kept 
during the first forty years of his ministerial life, it appears 
that he preached 4,320 sermons, durng that time. He had 
an appointment for the Sunday succeeding his death. He 
was a man of sublime faith, a joyous and cheerful diapoRi- 
tion. and a charming social nature. He married Dulcena B. 
Williams (1819- ). the daughter of James ( -1834) 
and Hannah (Maupln) Williams. January 10, 1843. who still 



254 GENEALOGY OF THE 

survives him, in the 79th year of her age. They had three 
children. ; i.. 1 

148. J. Dlllard, i)om May 9. 1846. 

149. Hattle E., bom March 5, 1855. 

150. Jacob Ridley, born May 10, 1860. 

No. 23. 

Elizabeth B. (Betsy) Goodpasture, daughter of John and 
Margery (Bryan) Goodpasture, was born in Overton County, 
Tennessee; married Claiborne Hinds ( -1872), October 
11, 1846, and settled in Guntown, Mississippi, where she died. 
She had five children. 

151. Tennessee G., born Aug. 28, 1847; died April 22, 1879. 

152. John S., born January 6, 1849. 

153. Martha F., born December 6, 1850. 

154. Mary A. B., bom March 20, 1854; died March 12, 1875. 

155. Ova C, bom December 22, 1859. 

No. 24. 

Esther A. (Hettie) Goodpasture, daughter of John and 
Margery (Bryan) Goodpasture, was born in Overton County, 
Tennessee, where she died, greatly beloved by all who knew 
her. She was twice married; first, to James Maxwell, Clerk 
of the County Court of Overton County; second, to LemuH 
Gustin Rose, a prosperous farmer, who survives her, now 
in the 87th year of his age. She never had any children. 

No. 25. 

Andrew B. Goodpasture, son of John and Margery (Bryan) 
Goodpasture, was born in Overton County, Tennessee. 
Soon after reaching his majority, he emigrated to Illinois, 
where he died not long afterwards. His was the only death 
in the family during the lifetime of his parents. He wa« 
never married. 

No. 26. 

Margaret Ann (Peggy) Goodpasture, daughter of John 
and Margery (Bryan) (Joodpasture, was born in Overton 



GOODPASTURE FAMILY. 255 

County, Tennessee, where, also ehe died, surviving the last 
of her two children only a week. She married Dennis C. 
Mitchell, September 13, 1848. Her two children were, 

156. Isaiah Wlnburn, born June 25, 1849; died December 
18, 1890. 

157. John M. D.. born April 12, 1851, died June 18, 1884. 

No. 27. 

John G. Goodpasture, son of John and Margery tBryan) 
Goodpasture, was born In Overton County, Tennessee; 
served as a volunteer In the Mexican war; is a practicing 
physician, and resides at Algood, in Putnam County. II« 
has been married twice: first, to Catherine M. Atkinson 
(1830-1896), July 14, 1850; second, to Maybelle Mills (1874- 
) on the eleventh day of March, 1897. He has four chil- 
dren, all by the first wife. 

158. Wlnburn A., born in 1851. 

159. Sallie M.. born in 1853. 

160. Josie, born in 1855. 

161. Hettle, born April 21, 1872. 

No. 28. 

Jefferson Dillard Goodpasture, son of John and Margery 
f^Brj'an) Goodpasture, was a native of Overton County, 
Tennessee, where he obtained a common school education. 
He attended the law school at Cumberland University in 
1848-9; In 1847, before he ever appeared In a lawsuit, he 
was appointed Clerk and Master, at Livingston, and wae 
re-appolnted at the expiration of his term, in 1853. In 1856, 
he was a delegate to the National Democratic Convention, 
at Cincinnati; resigned the office of Clerk and Master, in 
1857, to accept a seat In the State Senate. After the ex- 
piration of his term In the Senate, devoted himself wholly 
to the law, In which he achieved eminent success. In 1872. 
was one of the Presidential electors, elected on the Greeley 
and Brown ticket. Moved to Nashville in 1879, and traded 
largely in real estate, and later engaged extensively in the 
importation of live- stock- He djed m Nashvlhe. He- waa 



256 GENEALOGY OF THE 

twice married: first, to Sarah Jane (1835-1868), daughter 
of Jacob and Jane C. (Marchbanks) Dillen, May 15, 1852, 
second, to Nannie, daughter of Austin C. and Lucette 
(Clark) Young, June 17, 1869. He had nine children. 

BY HIS FIRST WIFE. 

162. John Ridley, bom March 5, 1854. 

163. Albert Virgil, born November 19, 1855. 

164. William Henry, bom November 28, 1859. 

165. Harvey Dlllard, born July 27, 1864; died June 8, 1867. 

166. Jacob Dillen, bom August 27, 1867; died Feb. 20, 1868. 

BY HIS SECOND WIFE. 

167. Lucette Margery, bom May 15, 1870. 

168. Austin Young, bom August 26, 1872. 

169. Mona Clark, born April 1, 1874. 

170. Jefferson Dillard, born April 13, 1877. 

No. 29. 

James McDonnold Goodpasture, son of John and Margery 
(Bryan) Goodpasture, was bom in Overton County, Ten- 
nessee, and died in Putnam County. He was a physician by 
profession, and was for six years Clerk and Master, at 
Cookeville. He married Ova Arnold (1839- ), December 
5, 1854, and had four children. 

171. Avo, born September 27, 1855. 

172. Mary Hettie, born September 23, 1858. 

173. John Bryan, bora July 15. 1864. 

174. Sarah Margery, born March 13, 1868. 

No. 30. 

Winburn W. Goodpasture, son of John and Margery 
(Bryan) Goodpasture, was born and still lives in Overton 
County, Tennessee. He is a prominent lawyer, and has 
been both Circuit Judge and Chancellor. He married 
Martha Ann Capps (1886- ), daughter of Doak H. Capps, 
long a successful merchant of Livingston, Tennessee, J9.i),v\- 
^ 17, 1854, a-iid ha« had five children, 



GOODPASTURE FAMILY. 257 

175. Eugene, born September 13, 1856; died February 3, 
1858. 

176. Lou G., born April 4, 1857. 

177. Ala May, born March 5, 1859; died August 4, 1891. 

178. Maggie L., born December 28, 1863. 

179. Elmo C, born March 12, 1867. 

No. 31. 

Madison Goodpasture, son of James Goodpasture, Jr., 
moved with his uncle Abraham Goodpasture to Morgin 
County, Illinois. Subsequently he lived at Louisiana, Mis 
souri. He was twice married and had children. 

180. James. , 

No. 32. 

Jefferson Goodpasture, son of James Goodpasture, Jr., 
soon after reaching manhood moved to the State of Illinois, 
where he has descendants, but we have not been able to 
get particular information with reference to them. 

No. 33. 

Robert M. Goodpasture, son of Arthur Goodpasture, mar- 
ried and had children. 

181. Milton. 

182. Dillard. 

183. Martha. 

No. 35. 

Abraham H. Goodpasture, son of Arthur Goodpasture, 
moved to Illinois, and had children. No other information. 

No. 36. 

Malinda Goodpasture, daughter of Arthur Goodpasture, 
married Thos. J. Murphy, and lived at Hilham, Tennessee. 
She died several years ago. No children. 

No. 37. 

Sarah Goodpasture, daughter of Arthur Goodpasture, 
married Hiram Hembree and lived in Overton County, Ten- 
nessee. She had children. 
17 



258 GENfiALOGY OF THE 

184. Campbell. 

185. Joseph Robert. 

No. 38. 

Goodpasture, daughter of Arthur Goodpasture, 

married Arthur Garrett, of Overton County, Tennessee . 
No other information. 

No. 41. 

Alexander Goodpasture, son of Abraham Goodpasture, of 
Morgan County, Illinois, married and had children. After 
his death his widow married Jacob Gillespie, and the family 
lived near Eugene City, Oregon. No other information. 

No. 42. 

Hamilton Goodpasture, son of Abraham Goodpasture, of 
Morgan County, Illinois, was born in Overton County, Ten 
nessee. He married Eleanor Ellyson, in 1836, and ha J 
eight children. 

186. Elizabeth, born November 9, 1836. 

187. Andrew Jackson, born August 18, 1840. 

188. William Hamilton, born in 1841; died August 9, 1865. 

189. Abraham, born in 1843. 

190. John Ellyson, born October 7, 1847. 

191. James P., born March 19, 1848. 

192. Martha Jane, born June 7, 1850; died Jan. 17, 1893. 

193. Thomas B., born July 1, 1852. 

No. 43. 

Jane Goodpasture, daughter of Abraham Goodpasture, of 
Morgan County, Illinois, married a Mr. Deaton, and had 
seven children. 

194. Bounaparte. 

195. Alexander. 

196. Simpson, drowned in Missouri River. 

197. James (twin). 

198. Thomas (twin). 

199. Hannah. 

200. Marear«tte. 



GOODPASTURE PAMII,Y. 259 

No. 45. 

Hannah Goodpasture, daughter of Abraham Goodpasture, 
of Morgan County, Illinois, married a Mr. Long, and lived 
near Concord, Illinois. No other information. 

No. 46. 

Martha Goodpasture, daughter of Abraham Goodpasture, 
of Morgan County, Illinois, maiTied a Mr. Smith, and lived 
near Concord, Illinois. No other information. 

No. 47. 

Elizabeth Goodpasture, daughter of Abraham Goodpasture, 
of Morgan County, Illinois, married a Mr. Taylor, and lived 
near Concord, Illinois. No other information. 

No. 48. 

Mary M. Goodpasture, daughter of Jefferson and Nancy 
(Allen) Goodpasture, died unmairied. 

No. 49. 

Francis M. Goodpasture, son of Jefferson and Nancy 
(Allen) Goodpasture, is one of the substantial citizens of 
Overton County, Tennessee; did much to pi-eserve the 
county records, during the war, and has since been one 
of its leading magistrates. He married Lydia L. Thomas 
(1842- ), July 28, 1868, and has had five children. 

201. James T., born May 5. 1869. 

202. Florence, born March 14, 1871. 

203. John J., born October 12, 1873. 

204. Flora A., born November 6, 1876; died August 19, 1887. 

205. Albert B., born May 14, 1881; died September 3, 188b. 

No. 50. 

James H. Goodpasture, son of Jefferson and Nancy (Alien) 
Goodpasture, died unmarried. 

No. 51. 
Marena Goodpasture, daughter of Jefferson and Nau'^y 



260 GENEALOGY OF THE 

(Allen) Goodpasture, married Clinton Masters ( -1861), 
in 1855. She had no children. 

No. 52. 

Thomas C. Goodpasture, son of Jefferson and Nancy 
(Allen) Goodpasture, married Adelade Smith, in 1859, and 
had one child. 

206. James J., born in 1860. 

No. 53. 

Malinda B. Goodpasture, daughter of Jefferson and Nancy 
(Allen) Goodpasture, married Porter Winton, in 1859, and 
has seven children. 

206. William. 

207. Robert. 

208. Nancy. 

209. Ann. 

210. Belle. 

211. Ferdinand, deceased. 

212. Quitman. 

No. 54. 

Eliza E. Goodpasture, daughter of Jefferson and Nancy 
(Allen) Goodpasture, married John Tays ( -1864), in 
1863, and had one child. 

213. John W., born in 1865. 

No. 55. 

Sarah C. (joodpasture, daughter of Jefferson and Nancy 
(Allen) Goodpasture, married James Cooper ( -1870), In 
1868, and after his death, married Richard Hamilton. She 
had four children. The names of the last two not known. 

BY HER FIRST HUSBAND. 

214. Lillie May, born August 22, 1869. 

BY HER SECOND HUSBAND. 

215. Albert, born In June, 1874. 



GOODPASTURE FAMILY. 261 

No. 56. 

William P. Goodpasture, son of Jefferson and Nancy 
(Allen) Goodpasture, married Bethier Lee, in 1870, and had 
one child. 

216. Willie Ann, born in June, 1871. 



FOURTH GENERATION. 

No. 57. 

A. W. Goodpasture, son of William Lockhart and Jane 
(White) Goodpasture, married Minnie Rhudy, January 19, 
1870. 

No. 58. 

Ellen W. W. Goodpasture, daughter of William Lockhart 
and Jane (White) Goodpasture, married Rev. John M. 
Scott ( -1891), April 11, 1867, and had eight children. 

217. Bertie J., born February 14, 1868; died March 5. 1889. 

218. Milton, born May 31, 1870. 

219. Mary Ellen, born February 14, 1872. 

220. J. Walter, born April 25, 1874. 

221. Josephine Cleo, born October 20, 1876. 

222. William Trigg, born August 25, 1878. 

223. Conley S., born July 23, 1881. 

224. Wilson White, born November 13, 1888. 

No. 60. 

James L. Goodpasture, son of William Lockhart and Jane 
(White) Goodpasture, married Mary Hoofnagle, January 
12, 1869. and has two children. 

225. Clarence, born April 3, 1870. 

226. Anna Clyde, born April 3, 1874. 

No. 61. 

Mary Campbell Goodpasture, daughter of William Lock- 
hart and Jane (White) Goodpasture, married Prof. H. ('„ 
Clutsam ( -1887), June 10, 1868. 



262 GENEALOGY OF THE 

No. 62. 

Mary Tenel Sprinkle, daughter of John T. and Martha 
Hamilton (Goodpasture) Sprinkle, married Wm. Snider, 
May 24, 1845, and had twelve children. 

227. John Henry, born July 7, 184C. 

228. William Hamilton, born February 13, 1848. 

229. Peter Terrel, born June 1, 1850. 

230. George Washington, born July 7, 1852. 

231. Charles Sylvester, born July 16, 1854. 

232. Martha E. C., born Nov. 25, 1856; died Sept. 30, 1890. 

233. Lafayette McMulIen, born December 2. 1858. 

234. Sarah Emma Jane, born July 22, 1861. 

235. A. R. F., born April 23, 1863. 

236. Archibald S., born May 18, 1866; died Dec. 7, 1872. 

237. Mary Susana Levisa, born January 5, 1868. 

238. Alice Virginia, born March 30, 1870. 

No. 73. 

William Hamilton Goodpasture, son of Abraham Hamil 
ton, and Sarah M. (Humphrey) Goodpasture, was married 
three times— first, to Mary B. Curren, September 22, 185D; 
second, to Margaret E. Winbarger, September 18, 1866; and, 
third, to Mary J. Pafford, January 25, 1894. He has nine 
children. 

BY HIS FIRST WIFE. 

239. Albert S., born November 21, 1860. 

BY HIS SECOND WIFE. 

240. David W., born July 29, 1868. 

241. Charles H., born July 10, 1870. 

242. Sarah E., born December 27, 1872; died July 23, 1S^1. 

243. James Glenn, born July 17, 1815. 

244. Everett Hamilton, born March 19, 1878. 

245. Livonia V., born June 19, 1880. 

BY HIS THIRD WIFE. 

246. Robert Lee, born December 27, 1894. 

247. Milton W., born March 17, 1896. 



GOODPASTURE FAMILY. 263 

No. 74. 

Sarah Margaret Goodpasture, daughter of Abraham Ham- 
ilton and Sarah M. (Humphrey) Goodpasture married L. R. 
CoIIey. 

No. 75. 

David Washington Goodpasture, son of Abraham Hamil- 
ton and Sarah M. (Humphrey) Goodpasture, enlisted in the 
Confederate Army, and was killed in battle in 1863. 

No. 76. 

Ellen Virginia Goodpasture, daughter of Abraham Hamil- 
ton and Sarah M. (Humphrey) Goodpasture, married Samuel 
Farris. 

No. 78. 

E. A. Goodpasture, daughter of Abraham Hamilton and 
Sarah M. (Humphrey) Goodpasture, manied John V. 
Musser. 

No. 80. 

Jane Lockhart Goodpasture, daughter of Abraham Ham- 
ilton and Sarah M. (Humphrey) Goodpasture, married C. 
R. Johnston, November 19, 1869, and has had ten children. 

248. Minnie Jane, born August 30, 1870. 

249. Lizzie Bickle, born May 21, 1872. 

250. John Abraham, born August 31, 1874. 

251. Walter 'Enoe, born August 14, 1876. 

252. George Washington, born February 7, 1878. 

253. Charles Worley, born Sept. 27, 1880; died July 4, 1881. 

254. Joseph Keller, born December 31, 1883. 

255. Henry Clay, born October 7, 1886. 

256. Clara Belle, born January 26, 1888. 

257. Ella Blanche, born October 1, 1891. 

No. 83. 

Abraham Hamiltin Goodpasture, son of Abraham Hamil- 
ton and Sarah M. (Humphrey) Goodpasture, married Kate 
Moore. 



264 GENEALOGY OF THE 

No. 84. 

Ellen V. Wolfe, daughter of Roland and Elizabeth Lock- 
hart (Goodpasture) Wolfe, married William A. Winbarger, 
December 17, 1872. 

No. 85. 

Sarah M. Wolfe, daughter of Roland and Elizabeth Lock- 
hart (Goodpasture) Wolfe, married Ephraim Six, February 
17, 1887. 

No. 86. 

Maggie F. Wolfe, daughter of Roland and Elizabeth 
Lockhart (Goodpasture) Wolfe, married John A. Corrico, 
October 23, 1883, and has three children. 

258. Andrew Blain, born November 10, 1884. 

259. Lutie Estelle, born April 24, 1886. 

260. Ella May, born May 12, 1891. 

No. 88. 

Emma C. Wolfe, daughter of Roland and Elizabeth Lock- 
hart (Goodpasture) Wolfe, married H. C. Defreese, May 6, 
1880. 

No. 90. 

John G. Carlock, son of Abraham W. and Mary R. (Good- 
pasture) Carlock, was born in McLean County, Illinois, 
where he died. He married Lucinda Musick, September 
5, 1850, and had eight children. 

261. Dillard H., born October 15, 1851; died young. 

262. George M., born December 10, 1852; died young. 

263. Mary L., born January 1, 1854. 

264. Richard L., born July 1, 1856. 

265. Hester E., bom August 2, 1858; died April 1, 1864. 

266. S. Gertrude, born March 16, 1860. 

267. John G., born February 14, 1863; died in 1868. 

268. Lorin A., born December 8, 1867; died in 1870. 

No. 92. 

Madison P. Carlock, son of Abraham W. and Mary R. 
(Goodpasture) Carlock, was born in McLean County, 



GOODPASTURE FAMILY. 265 

Illinois. He was twice married. First to Elizabeth Ewing 
( -1858), June 20, 1853, and, second, to Nancy E. Judy, 
June 14, 1860. He was the father of fifteen children. 

BY HIS FIRST WIFE. 

269. Arabelle, born September 28, 1854; died September 
27, 1855. 

270. James Howard, born September 1, 1856. 

271. Isaac, who died in infancy. 

BY HIS SECOND WIFE. 

272. Rosalie, born March 17, 1861; died February 20, 1889. 

273. George W., born June 4, 1862. 

274. John A., born September 1, 1863. 

275. Ida M., born April 8, 1865. 

276. Horace L., bom January 3, 1867. 

277. Lyman J., born January 26, 1868. 

278. Madison B., born January 4, 1870; died April 29, 1871. 

279. Lina Gennette, born January 23, 1873. 

280. Roy R., born June 29, 1875. 

281. Wayne B., born March 17, 1877. 

282. Marion P., born December 25, 1880. 

283. Grace Lenore, born March 23, 1882. 

No. 93. 

Nancy J. Carlock, daughter of Abraham W. and Mary R. 
(Goodpasture) Carlock, was born in McLean County, 
Illinois; married Thomas Brown, October 1, 1858; moved to 
the State of Nebraska, where they now reside. They have 
four children. 

284. Jacob M., born December 12, 1859. 

285. Hattie, born January 5, 1861. 

286. Abraham C, born April 17, 1862. 

287. Cora, born June 10, 1865. 

No. 94. 

Sarah Carlock, daughter of Abraham W. and Mary 1. 
(Goodpasture) Carlock, was born in McLean County, 



266 GENEALOGY OP THE 

Illinois, and now resides in Santa Cruz, Cal. She was 
twice married; to William Allen, March 15, 1850; and to 
William P. Marley ( -1860), March 2, 1858. She had two 
children. 

BY HER FIRST HUSBAND. 

288. Zepheniah, born April 22, 1851. 

BY HER SECOND HUSBAND. 

289. William P., born January 22, 1859. 

No. 95. 

Mahala Carlock, daughter of Abraham W. and Mary R. 
(Goodpasture) Carlock, was born in McLean County, 
Illinois, where she still resides. She married Benjamin 
Gaddis ( -1895), September 22, 1853, and had eleven chil- 
dren. 

290. Madison W., born July 4, 1854; died May 18, 1876. 

291. Albert W.. born October 9, 1855. 

292. Cassius M., bom November 18, 1857. 

293. Mary F., born December 28, 1859. 

294. Florence L., born March 30, 1862; died Jan. 10, 1863. 

295. James A., born October 16, 1863; died March 30, 1864. 

296. Silas M., born April 30, 1865. 

297. George B., born September 1, 1867. 

298. Luella, born September 13, 1870. 

299. Rosa B., born Sept. 14, 1875; died Sept. 8, 1882. 

300. Gertrude, born September 7, 1878. 

No. 97. 

Levina Carlock, daughter of Abraham W. and Mary R. 
(Goodpasture) Carlock, was born, and still resides in 
McLean County, Illinois. She married Ira Rowell. Novem- 
ber 16, 1869, and has had five children. 

301. Lillie, born September 27, 1870. 

302. Laura B., born December 20, 1871; died June 15, 1890. 

303. Lula J., born Nov. 21. 1875; died Feb. 18, 1895. 

304. Edith J., born June 30, 1879. 

305. Ira, born October 10, 1885. 



GOODPASTURE FAMILY. 267 

No. 98. 

William B. Carlock, son of Abraham W. and Mary R. 
(Goodpasture) Carlock, was born in McLean County, 
Illionis, and is now a prominent lawyer at Bloomington. 
He married Missouri McCart, October 6, 1870, and has three 
children. 

306. Leslie Bryan, born September 14, 1811. 

307. William C, born July 15, 1877. 

308. Madeline (adopted), born August 15, 1892. 

No. 100. 

Abraham H. Carlock, son of Abraham W. and Mary R. 
(Goodpasture) Carlock, was born in McLean County, 
Illinois, and now resides at Carlock, in that county. He 
married Ida I. Edwards, January 9, 1879, and has three 
children. 

309. Lula E., born October 25, 1879. 

310. Pearl L., born August 3, 1881. 

311. Celia W.. born April 14. 1884. 

No. 101. 

Margery Carlock, daughter of Abraham W. and Mary R. 
(Goodpasture) Carlock, was born in McLean County, 
Illinois, where she died. She married William Pusey, 
October 10, 1881, and had four children. 

312. William. 

313. Mary. 

314. Lucretia. 

315. Parker Elmo. 

No. 102. 

Levina Dale, daughter of William and Martha H. (Good- 
pasture) Dale, married G. W. Parrish, in 1852, and died 
childless. 

No. 104. 

William Jackson Dale, son of William and Martha H. 
(Goodpasture) Dale, married Leanna Butler (1840-1890), in 
March, 1854. He was a captain in the Confederate Army, 



268 GENEAl,OGY OF THE 

and was killed at the battle of Chickamau^, September 
20, 1863. He left four children. 

316. William Thomas, born in 1856. 

317. Martha, born in January, 1858. 

318. James, born in 1860. 

319. Jennie Lee, born April 27, 1861. 

No. 105. 

Elizabeth Dale, daughter of William and Martha H. 
(Goodpasture) Dale, married L. B. (Tuck) Butler, in April, 
1851, and has had six children. 

320. Martha, born in February, 1852; died about 1880. 

321. Louisa, born in 1854. 

322. Marcella, born about 1856. 

323. Jane Ann, born about 1858. 

324. Dulcena, born about 1860. 

325. John, born about 1867. 

No. 106. 

Wilburn Hamilton Dale, son of William and Martha H. 
(Goodpasture) Dale, lives at Butler's Landing, Tennessee, 
and has been married three times — fii-st to Catherine 
Maberry ( -1874), in August, 1854; second, to widow 

Hampton ( -1878), about 1876; and, third, to . 

He has a large family. 

No. 107. 

Cleon Easailus Dale, son of William and Martha H. 
(Goodpasture) Dale, married Frances P. Chism ( -1894), 
in January, 1858, and has had ten children. 

326. Bettie, boi-n December 11, 1859. 

327. Ann, born in 1861. 

328. Andrew, born in 1863. 

329. Bennett, born in 1865. 

330. William, born in 1867. 
33L Sallie, born in 1868. 

332. Jennie, born in 1872; died in 1877. 

333. Nettie, born in 1874. 



GOODPASTURE FAMIL,Y. 269 



334. John, born in 1876. 

335. Ada, born in 1878. 

No. 108. 

Alfred Lafayette Dale, son of William and Martha H. 
(Goodpasture) Dale, resides in Livingston, Tennessee, and 
has been married twice. His first wife was Sallie Butler, 
whom he married in 1864. After her death, he married her 
sister, Lucette Butler, December 10, 1884. He has had nine 
children. 

BY HIS FIRST WIFE. 

336. Russell Aubry, born in 1865. 

337. Jake Bennett, born about 1866. 

338. Butler, born in 1868; died in childhood. 

339. Lura. born in 187~^0. 

340. Lizzie, born in 1S72. 

BY HIS SKCOND WIFE. 

341. A son, died in infancy. 

342. Perry. 

343. Lillie. 

344. Pauline. 

No. 109. 

Andrew Columbus Dale, son of William and Martha H. 
(Goodpasture) Dale, was a Lieutenant in the Confederate 
Army and is now a prominent citizen of Davidson County, 
Tennessee. He has been married twice — first to Jane Ann 
Chowning ( -1883), January 23, 1868, and, second, to 
Mary Kyle, December 10, 1884. He has had ten children. 

BY HIS FIRST WIFE. 

345. Marcellus C, born March 2, 1869. 

346. Etta, born March 17, 1872. 

347. James C, born December 10, 1875. 

348. William R., born in February, 1880; died in infancy. 



270 GENEALOGY OFjTHE 

BY HIS SECOND WIFE. 

349. Dillard Y. (twin), born November 4, 1885. 

350. Nellie (twin), born November 4,1885; died November 
14, 1886. 

351. Rebecca, born December 13, 1887. 

352. Andrew C, born September 7, 1889. 

353. Paul, born April 21, 1894. 

354. Hugh, born April 23, 1897. 

No. 110. 

John Francis Dale, son of ^Villiam and Martha H. (Good- 
pasture) Dale, lives at Bennett's Ferry, Tennessee, and liaB 
been twice married — first, to Margaret Dervin ( -1886), 
in 1872, and, second, to . He has children. 

BY HIS FIRST WIFE. 

355. Stone Plumlee. 

No. 111. 

Dulcena Dale, daughter of William and Martha H. (Good- 
pasture) Dale, married Capt. Jacob C. Bennett, of Morgan's 
Confederate Cavalry, in June, 1863. Her husband was one 
of the six officers who escaped with General Morgan from 
the Ohio Penitentiary. She had ten children. 

356. Lizzie, born in February, 1866. 

357. Mattie, born in 1867. 

358. John, born in 1869; died in 1878. 

359. William, born in 1871; died in 1878. 

360. Ida (twin), born in 1873; died in 1878. 

361. Edgar (twin), born in 1873. 

362. Albert Ridley, born in 1876; died in 1876. 

363. A son, died in infancy. 

364. Jackson, born in 1878; died in 1887. 

365. Fannie, born in 1879. 

No. 113. 

William Iredell Bates, son of Joseph H. and Nancy i>. 
(Goodpasture) Bates, Ib a farmer, living near Columbus, 



GOODPASTURE FAMILY. 27 1 

Adams County, Illinois, but has, for several years, been 
superintendent of Adams County Alms House and Farm, 
a position requiring special skill and tact. He was married 
to Mary Ann Robertson, June 27, 1851, and has had nine 
children. 

366. Martha Dulcena, born May 7, 1854; died May 17, 1854. 

367. Amos Dillard, born September 3, 1855. 

368. Myra .Josephine, born March 26, 1858. 

369. Ida Frances, born July 25, 1861. 

370. Mary Effie, born November 25, 1863. 

371. William Eddy, born Junary 20, 1866. 

372. Hattie Loas, born January 4, 1868; died December 
12, 1870. 

373. Joseph Marcus, born April 18, 1870. 

374. Orval Lee, born December 13, 1874. 

No. 114. 

Mary Elzada Bates, daughter of Joseph H. and Nancy 
B. (Goodpasture) Bates, married William Downing, May 28, 
1850, and lives in Camp Point, Illinois. She has five chil 
dren. 

375. John Franklin, born in May, 1851. 

376. Joseph Henry, born in 1856. 

377. Albert ftezin, born in 1859. 

378. Jessie Viola, born in 1864. 

379. Harriet E., born in 1867. 

No. 115. 

John Russell Bates, son of Joseph H. and Nancy B. (Good- 
pasture) Bates, is married, but has no children. He lives 
at Republic, Greene County, Missouri. When a young man, 
he went to Oregon, and was, at one time, a member of the 
legislature of that State. 

No. 117. 

Thomas Jefferson Bates, son of Joseph H. and Nancy R. 
(Goodpasture) Bates, is a retired farmer, living in Gales- 
burg, Illinois. He has represented Adams County In the 
Illinois Legislature, and served many years on supervisor's 



272 GENEALOGY OF THE 

board of that county. He married Leonora Wilson, Novem 
ber 6, 1859, and has had seven children. 

380. Melgar McClellan, born August 18, 1860; died August 
25, 1862. 

381. John Emmett, born August 17, 1862. 

382. Henson Everett, born March 8, 1864. 

383. Henry Malcolm, born December 20, 1865. 

384. Carrie Geneva, born December 19, 1867. 

385. Leonora Wilson, born September 27, 1869. 

386. Mary Emma, born August 13, 1871. 

No. 118. 

Permelia Jane Bates, daughter of Joseph H. and Nancy 
B. (Goodpasture) Bates, married James Sharp, a prosperous 
farmer of Camp Point, Illinois, April 21, 1864. She had 
three children, two of whom survived her. 

387. Fletcher. 

No. 119. 

Madison Canby Bates, son of Joseph H. and Nancy B. 
(Goodpasture) Bates, lives in Oberlin, Ohio. He was mar- 
ried to Emma Latimer, May 16, 1861, and has five children. 

388. George Latimer. 

389. Eula Goodpasture. 

390. Mary Drumon. 

391. Harriet Myrtle. 

392. Madison Clair. 

No. 120. 

Margery Josephine Bates, daughter of Joseph H. and Nancy 
B. (Goodpasture) Bates, married David R. Thomas, a farmer 
and trader of Augusta, Hancock County, Illinois, November 
22, 1860, and has had eight children. 

393. Lizzie May, born September 15, 1861. 

394. Nancy Josephine, born August 19, 1863; died Feb- 
ruary 25. 1887. 

395. Edith Allegra, born October 21, 1865. 

396. Arthur Reed, born June 18, 1868. 

397. Augusta Bates, born July 2, 1871; died September 1, 
1872. 



GOODPASTURE FAMILY. 2.73 

898. Lottie Maud, born October 11, 1873. 

399. Freddie, born July 17, 1876; died February 17, 1877. 

400. Madison C, born December 19, 1879. 

No. 121. 

Joseph Baxter Bates, son of Joseph H. and Nancy B. 
(Goodpasture) Bates, received a college education. Taught 
school and raised cotton in Alabama. Was admitted to the 
bar. Was a Republican candidate for the legislature, and 
for Presidential elector. Returned to Illinois in 1877, and 
entered the field of journalism. Has been, for many years, 
political editor of the Bloomington, Illinois, Daily Pan- 
lagraph, the most widely circulated paper in Illinois, outside 
of Chicago. He married Sophie Harrison Rucker, of Bed 
ford County, Tennessee, June 23, 1870, and has six children. 

401. Lucy Ragsdale, born March 20, 1873. 

402. Annie Rucker, born November 13, 1874. 

403. Jerome Lowell, born January 30, 1877. 

404. Robert Paul, born July 16, 1879. 

405. Ralph Dwight, born November 7, 1882. 

406. Irene Huron, born September 25, 1888. 

No. 122. 

Abraham Henderson Bates, son of Joseph and Nancy B. 
(Goodpasture) Bates, of Springfield, Illinois, received a 
college education, and entered the ministry of the Presby- 
terian Church. Has had charge of churches at Empire City, 
Oregon, and Mawa and Springfield, Illinois. He married 
Lydia E. Parker, June 17, 1880, but has no chidren. 

No. 124. 

Marquis Jeix)me Bates, son of Joseph H. and Nancy B. 
(Goodpasture) Bates, was a greatly beloved and highly re- 
spected business man. Ho was never married. 

No. 125. 

Margaret Ann Bates, daughter of Joseph H. and Nancy B. 
(Goodpasture) Bates, married Leland S. Breese, a business 
18 



274 GENEALOGY OF THE 

man of V/ilmette, Illincis, August 22, 1869, and has had six 
children. 

407. Margaret Josephine, born February 20, 1871. 

408. Bessie Maybelle, born August 31, 1872. 

409. Harriet Isabelle, born August 9, 1875. 

410. Paul Leland, born January 14, 1883. 

411. Niles Sidney Sumner, born June 15, 1886. 

412. Beulah Nancy, born June 5, 1888; died April 27, 1889. 

No. 126. 

Harriet Rosanna Bates, daughter of Joseph H. and Nanv„- 
B. (Goodpasture) Bates, married David M. Harris, a minis- 
ter, teacher and editor, of the Cumberland Presbyterian 
Church, August 25, 1869, but had no children. 

No. 127. 

Morillena Dale, daughter of Thomas and Levina (Good 
pasture) Dale, married Thomas Brown, at Melville, Dado 
County, Missouri, in 1854. She had no children. 

No. 130. 

W. A. Dale, son of Thomas and Levina (Goodpasture) 
Dale, a merchant at Cane Hill, Missouri, is a permanent 
cripple from service in the Confederate Army. He mar- 
ried Rebecca Lewis, of Dade County, Missouri ,in 1S60, and 
has had six children. 

413. A daughter, born February 4, 1861; died in infancy. 

414. Alpha, born June 22, 1862. 

415. Cora, born August 27, 1866. 

416. Levina, born May 7, 1869. 

417. Thomas A., born September 4, 1872. 

418. Willie Lev/is, born January 31, 1885; died in infancy. 

No. 131. 

John W. Dale, son of Thomas and Levina (Goodpasture) 
Dale, married Martha Rountree, in December, 1867, and had 
two children. 

419. Loney, who died at the age of six years. 

420. Flora. 



GOODPASTURE FAMILY. 275 

No. 132. 

Abraham B. Dale, son of Thomas and Levina (Good- 
pasture) Dale, was born in Overton County, Tennessee, and 
died in the Confederate service, at Little Rock, Arkansas, 
He was never married. 

No. 135. 

Mary M. Dale, daughter of Thomas and Levina (Good- 
pasture) Dale, married J. M. Rountree, in 1868, and has had 
seven children, live of whom are living, to-wit: 

421. John T. 

422. Clyde. 

423. Charles. 

424. Lee. 

425. Lula. 

No. 137. 

Azariah Thomas Goodpasture, son of William B. and 
Martha Ann (Harville) Goodpasture, joined the Union 
Army in Illinois, and died in the service, unmarried. 

No. 138. 

Mary Margery Goodpasture, daughter of William B. and 
Martha Ann( Harville) Goodpasture, married Charles Jones, 
in 1863, and had six children.- Three died young. The 
others are: 

426. Fanny. 

427. Ida. 

428. Nettie. 

No. 140. 

Andrew Seymour Goodpasture, of Auburn, Illinois, son cf 
William B. and Martha Ann (Harville) Goodpasture, mar- 
ried mary Jane Fletcher, April 2. 1868, and has three chil 
dren. 

429. Nettie, born December 17, 1868. 

430. Henry Fletcher, born December 15, 1870. 

431. Andrew Ward, born August 6, 1874. 



276 GENEALOGY OE THE 

No. 141. 
Lucy Dulcena Goodpasture, daughter of William B. and 
Martha Ann (Hai-ville) Goodpasture, married Jacob Waiters, 
in 1SC3 or 4, and lives in California. She has six childrer. 
The names of two of them are not known. 

432. Willis. 

433. Effie. 

434. Nola. 

435. Willia. 

No. 142. 

William Erastus Goodpasture, son of William B. and 
Martha Ann (Harville) Goodpasture, was twice married. 
By his second wife he had one child. 

436. Marshall, born in 1871. 

No. 143. 

Philander Cass Goodpasture, son of William B. and 
Martha Ann (Harville) Goodpasture, married Ella Lowder- 
milk, in 1877, and has seven children living. 

437. Lloyd. 

438. Edith. 

439. Curtis. 

440. Minnie. 

441. Bessie. 

442. Effie. 

443. Walter DeWitt Talmage. 

No. 146. 

Levi Dodds Goodspasture, son of William B. and Martha 
Ann (Harville) Goodpasture, married Martha Fletcher, in 
1874, and has four living children. 

444. Ida Pearl. 

445. Delia Maud. 

446. Nathan Clyde. 

447. Beulah Myrle. 

No. 147. 

Jesse Fletcher Goodpasture, son of William B. and Adel- 
phia (Smith) Goodpasture, married Matilda Porterfield. in 
1876, and has four children. 



GOODPASTURE FAMILY. 2^7 

448. Byron May, born in 1877. 

449. Lena, born in 1880. 

450. Francis Liddell, born in 1881. 

451. Jesse Lea, born in 1886. 

No. 148. 

J. Uillard Goodpasture, son of Abraham H. and Dulcena 
B. (Williams) Goodpasture, was born in Petersbui-g, 
Illinois. After attending the common schools, he spent a 
year at North Sangamon Academy, and six months it 
Lincoln University. In 1869 he moved to Holt County, 
Missojuri, and settled on the wild prairie, hauling the lumber 
to build his house a distance of 23 miles. The soil proved 
productive, and he now has one of the best grain and stock 
farms in the county. He moved to Maitland in 1893. Is 
a member of the school board, and of the County Court. 
He assisted in organizing the Nodaway Valley District Fair, 
for the counties of Nodaway, Andrew, Atchison and Holt, 
and served one year as its President. He is a director in 
the Farmer's Bank, of Maitland; a Mason and a member 
of the Methodist Church. He married Frances H. (1848- 
), daughter of George M. (1827-1853), and Mariam A. 
(Flinn) Obanion (1827-1897), September 1, 1868, and has 
seven children. 

452. Edwin R., born .luly 26, 1869. 

453. Abraham H., born May 20, 1871. 

454. Deedie A., born January 17, 1873. 

455. Mary E. C, born July 31, 1875. 

456. George B., born October 5, 1877. 

457. Vrenna J., born August 31, 1881. 

458. Ethel Frances, born January 26, 1885. 

No. 149. 

Hattie E. Goodpasture, daughter of Abraham H. and Dul- 
cena B. (Williams) Goodpasture, was born in Sangamon 
County, Illinois. She has been twice married, and has had 
four children. She married her first husband, W^. G. Web 
ster, August 17, 1875; and her second, James M. (1845- ), 



iyB GENEALOGY OF THE 

son af Rufus H. and Angeline F. (Matthews) Walker, Sep- 
tember 6, 1892. 

BY HER FIRST HUSBAND. 

459. A son, born June 29, 1876; died in infancy. 

460. Isabelle, born September 18, 1877. 

BY HER SECOND HUSBAND. 

461. Rupert S., born September 11, 1893. 

462. Frank L., born January 23, 1895. 

No. 150. 

Jacob Ridley Goodpasture, son of Abraham H. and Dul- 
cena B. (Williams) Goodpasture, was born in Sangamon 
County, Illinois, and moved thence to Hebron, Nebraska. 
He was twic«! married: first to Hannah Quaintance ( 
1893), in December, 1884; and second, to Lizzie Gordon, 
seventh daughter of Joseph and Ruth A. Combs, July 21, 
1896. He has had four children. 

BY HIS FIRST WIFE 

463. Lee, born in September, 1885. 

464. Gertrude, born in October, 1886. 

465. Dillard, born in 1887. 

466. George, born in 1890. 

No. 151. 

Tennessee G. Hinds, daughter of Claiborne and Elizabcih 
B. (Goodpasture) Hinds, married L. A. Mitchell, January 30, 
1866, and had seven children. 

467. Ollie, born December 22, 1866; died September 17. 
1879. 

468. Ella, born September 26, 1868. 

469. Dillard C, born March 12, 1870. 

470. Elbert A., born January 1, 1872. 

471. Nancy E., born August 2. 1874. 

472. John C, born September 19, 1876. 

473. Allen L., born February 21, 1879; died October 6, 
1879. 



GOODPASTURE FAMILY. 279 

No. 152. 
John S. Hinds, son of Claiborne and Elizabeth B. (Good^ 
pasture) Hinds, married T. A. Jones, January 24, 1872, and 
has ten children. 

474. Luvada, born February 11, 1873. 

475. Mollie, born November 24, 1874. 

476. Katie, born January 22, 1876. 

477. Anna, born December, 16, 1880. 

478. William, born December 9, 1882; died July 3, 1881. 

479. Mary, born May 22, 1884. 

480. Porter, born August 27, 1886. 

481. Curtis, born November 16, 1888. 

482. Bessie, born December 16, 1890. 

483. Ruth, born December 28, 1892. 

No. 153. 

Martha F. Hinds, daughter of Claiborne and Elizabeth B. 
(Goodpasture) Hinds, married J. D. Johnson, July 10, iS6S, 
and has five children. 

484. Dillard, born July 4, 1869; died February 8, 1870. 

485. Ollie, born February 26, 1870. 

486. Cora, born February 5, 1872. 

487. Edward, born February 10, 1874. 

488. Fletcher, born March 6, 1876. 

No. 155. 

Ova C. Hinds, daughter of Claiborne and Elizabeth B. 
(Goodpasture) Hinds, married L. A. Mitchell, the husband 
of her deceased sister, Tennessee, May 16, 1880, and has 
seven children. 

489. William G., born February 22, 1881. 

490. Emma D., born February 8, 1883. 

491. Clara B., born January 1, 1885. 

492. Lois E., born February 4, 1887. 

493. Chester, born April 30, 1889. 

494. Mabel, born February 21, 1892. 

495. Baby, born July 10, 1897. 



28o GENEALOGY OF THE 

No. 156. 

Isaiah Winburn Mitchell, son of Dennis C. and Margaret 
Ann (Goodpasture) Mitchell, was a successful farmer, near 
Livingston, Tennessee. He married Sophronie C. Winton, 
October 2, 1873, and had four children. 

496. Mary Hettie, born August 11, 1874. 

497. John Ridley, born September 26, 1877. 

498. William Walter, born August 29, 1881. 

499. Winburn Elmo, born July 28, 1884. 

No. 157. 

John M. D. Mitchell, son of Dennis C. and Margaret Ann 
(Goodpasture) Mitchell, of Livingston, Tennessee, thougr. 
he died in early manhood, achieved distinction at the bar, 
and was twice Attorney General of his district. He wa.^ 
never married. 

No. 1.58. 

Winburn A. Goodpasture, son of John G. and Catherine 
M. (Atkinson) Goodpasture, married Sue Keeton, of Over- 
ton County, Tennessee, October 28, 1873, and is now living 
in Gainesville, Texas. He has seven children. 

500. Lizzie, born July 30, 1875. 

501. Alvin Cullom, born August 24, 1877. 

502. Kate, born September 18, 1879. 

503. Albert Virgil, born September 19, 1881. 

504. Nettie Lea, born August 28, 1883. 

505. John, born September 14, 1887. 

506. Alfred M. Keeton. born August 19, 1891. 

No. 159. 

Sallie M. Goodpasture, daughter of John G. and Catherine 
M. (Atkinson) Goodpasture, married Dr. Henry E. Hart 
(1852- ), son of H. W. and Laura (Young) Hart, a lead- 
ing physician of Carthage, Tennessee, October 18, 1874. and 
has three children. 

507. Lucy Harris, born July 20, 1875. 

508. Alexander Selkirk, born September 3, 1876. 

509. Dewees Berry, born June 2, 1892. 



GOODPASTURE FAMILY. 281 

No. 160. 

Josie Goodpasture, daughter of John G. and Catherine 
M. (Atkinson) Goodpasture, married John Sanford, of 
Carthage, Tennessee, in December, 1881, and subsequently 
moved to Paul's Valley, I. T., where they now reside. She 
has had two children. 

510. Grace, born May 12, 1887; died in infancy. 

510. Eva, born October 31, 1894. 

No. 161. 

Hettie Goodpasture, daughter of John G. and Catherine 
M. (Atkinson) Goodpasture, married B. F. Sanders, of Car- 
thage, Tennessee, in September, 1896, and now resides in 
that town. 

No. 162. 

John Ridley Goodpasture, son of Jefferson Dillard ard 
Sarah Jane (Dillen) Goodpasture, was born in Livingston, 
Tennessee; graduated at East Tennessee University in 1875, 
from which school he received the degi-ee of Master of Arts 
in 1882. While here he projected, and was one of the first 
editors of the University monthly, the first periodical ever 
published by the students of the University. In 1876, he 
was elected a member of the State Legislature, where he 
made much reputation as a State credit Democrat. In a 
public address in Columbia, in 1878, Hon. Wm. J. Sykv^ 
said of him: '"Permit me to say that the speeches made 
in the last Legislature by two of the rising young men of 
Tennessee, R. P. Frierson, of Bedford, and J. R. Good 
pasture, have not and cannot be answered by any of the 
opponents of State credit, no matter how venerable m 
age or how experienced in debate." In 1878, he was elected 
a member of the committee o« resolutions in the Demo- 
cratic State Convention, over Judge Jo. C. Guild, after both 
had been called upon, and publicly expressed their views on 
the issues of £he campaign. He entered upon the practice 
of the law, at Clarksville, in 1877, in partnership with his 
brother, A. V. Goodpasture, but in November, 1878, lie 
yielded to an inexorable impression to preach, and aban- 



282 GENEALOGY OP THE 

donmg all purpose of achieving professional as well as 
political preferment, he entered the ministry of the Cumber- 
land Presbyterian, in which he has now labored for nearly 
twenty years. He has lately moved from Overton to David- 
son County, and is now living at Shwab, in that county, 
and is giving all his time to evangelistic work. He married 
Sallie A., daughter of Rev. John Lansden, on the 28th day 
of December, 1880, and has had eight children. 

512. Ruth, born January 13, 1882; died April 30, 1890. 

513. John Albert, born August S, 1883. 

514. William Dillard, born October 23, 1885. 

515. James Ridley, born September IG, 1887. 
5H>. Hugh Lansden, born October 26, 1889. 

517. Lurton, born December 24, 1891. 

518. Frank, born July 15, 1893. 

519. Hettie Rose, born June 9, 1895. 

No. 163. 

Albert Virgil Goodpasture, son of Jefferson Dillard and 
Sai'ah Jane (Dillen) Goodpasture, was born in Livingston, 
Tennessee; attended preparatory schools at Cookeville and 
New Middleton, and graduated at East Tennessee Univer- 
sity (University of Tennessee) in 1875, from which school 
he received the degree of Master of Arts, in 1882. In 1877, 
he graduated in the law department of Vanderbilt Univer- 
sity, and commenced the practice of his profession in Clarks- 
ville, Tennessee, July, 1877, in partnership with his brother, 
J. R. Goodpasture. His brother having abandoned the bar 
for the pulpit, in 1879 he became associated with Gen. Wm. 
A. Quarles and Hon. Wm. M. Daniel, in the well known 
law firm of Quarles, Daniel and Goodpasture. In 1884 and 
1885, in connection with his brother, W. H. Goodpasture, he 
made two importations of Holstein-Friesian cattle from 
Holland. In 1888, he was elected a member of the House 
of Representatives in the General Assembly of Tennessee, 
and in 1890, a member of the Senate. He served on the 
Ways and Means Committee, in both of these bodies. In 
1891, he resigned his seat in the Senate to accept the posi 



GOODPASTURE FAMILY. 283 

tlon of Clerk of the Supreme Court, at Nashville, v/hlch 
position he held until 1897. He married Jennie Wilson, 
daughter of Stephen W. (1822-1887) and Martha L. (Wilson) 
Dawson (1825-1864), November 16, 1880. and has had six 
children. 
520.Mattie Madge, born June 2, 1882. 

521. William Dillard (twin), born May 21, 1884; died May 
24, 1884. 

522. Ridley Rose (twin), born May 21, 1884. 

523. Ernest, born October 17, 1886. 

524. Sarah Jane, born September 15, 1890. 

525. Albert Virgil, born April 2, 1893. 

No. 164. 

William Henry Goodpasture, son of Jefferson Dillard and 
Sarah Jane (Dillen) Goodpasture, was born in Livingston, 
Tennessee. He received his literary education at Burritt 
College and Vanderbilt University, and graduated in the 
law department of the latter institution. He ranked higii in 
his college career, representing his society in the annual 
debate and oratorical contest, and also represented the Phi 
Delta Theta fraternity at the biennial meeting at Richmond, 
Virginia, in 1882. He visited all the countries of Europe, 
except Turkey and Russia, in 1883, and in 1884 and 1885, 
made two importations of Holstein-Fresian cattle from Hol- 
land, for the firm of A. V. & W. H. Goodpasture. He then 
joined his father in the importation of jack stock and Cleve- 
land Bay horses, making eight trips to Europe for that pur- 
pose. He projected, assisted in the organization, and be- 
came the first Secretary of the American Breeders' Associa- 
tion of Jacks and Jennets, and to his careful and intelligent 
work the success of this organization is mainly due. He 
published a valuable pamphlet on jack stock, and edited the 
first volume of the American Jack Stock Stud-Book. In 
1S91, his brother, A. V. Goodpasture, was appointed Clerk of 
the Supreme Court, at Nashville, and he retired from the 
stock business to accept the place of Deputy Clerk, in his 
office, which position he held until 1897. He has nevei 
married. 



284 GENEALOGY OF THE 

No. 167. 

Lucette Margery Goodpastui'e, daughter of Jefferson Dil- 
lard and Nannie (Young) Goodpasture, was born in Over 
ton County, Tennessee, and moved with her parents to 
Nashville in 1879. She was educated at Ward's Seminary. 
She married Joe M. Stewart, November 10, 1896. Her hus- 
band is the proprietor of the Stewart Pants Co., and Stewart 
Book and Music Co., of Nashville. They have one child. 

526. Marjorie Goodpasture, born October 10, 1897. 

No. 168. 

Austin Young Goodpasture, son of Jefferson Dillard and 
Nannie (Young) Goodpasture, was born in Overton County, 
Tennessee, and moved with his parents to Nashville, in 
1879, where he now resides, unmarried. 

No. 169. 

Mona Clark Goodpasture, daughter of Jefferson Dillard 
and Nannie (Young) Goodpastui'e, was born in Overton 
County, Tennessee, and moved with her parents to Nash- 
ville, in 1879. She was educated at the Nashville College 
for Young Ladies. She married Alexander R., son of Rev. 
Joseph B. Brwin, on the 2Sth day of April, 1896. Her hus- 
band is employed in the main office of the N., C. & St. L. Ry. 
They have one child. 

527. Tennie Marie, born February 8, 1897. 

No. 170. 

Jefferson Dillard Goodpasture, was born in Overton 
County, Tennessee, and moved with his parents to Nash- 
ville, in 1879, where he now resides, engaged in the real 
estate business. 

No. 171. 

Avo Goodpasture, daughter of James M. and Ova (Arnold) 
Goodpasture, married Dr. J. F. Dyer, a leading physician of 
Cookevllle, Tennessee, June 10, 1894. No children. 



GOODPASTURK FAMILY. 285 

No. 172. 

Mary Hettie Goodpasture, daughter of James M. and Ova 
(Arnold) Goodpasture, married A. W. Boyd, a prominent 
lawyer, formerly Clerk and Master, and at present State 
Senator, of Cookeville, Tennessee, December 15, 187S, and 
has had nine children. 

528. Ernest Houston, born October 1, 1879. 

529. Ova, born October 17, 1881. 

530. Vallie, born May 31, 1883. 

531. Allie, born December 26, 1884. 

532. McDonnold Jeffei-son, born November 25, 1887; die-i 
September 11, 1888. 

533. Margery, born February 22, 1890. 

534. Grover Cleveland, born September 30, 1891. 

535. Gretchen, born March 3, 1894. 

536. Alvin Goodpasture, born October 16, 1895; died 
October 10. 1896. 

No. 173. 

John Bryan Goodpasture, son of James M. and Ova 
(Arnold) Goodpasture, lives in Cookeville, Tennessee, and 
is unmarried. 

No. 174. 

Sarah Margery Goodpasture, daughter of James M. and 
Ova (Arnold) Goodpasture, married B. H. Jared ( -189b), 
a most promising young lawyer of Cookeville, December 3, 
1891, and has one child. 

537. Eugene Franklin, born December 12, 1895. 

No. 176. 

Lou G. Goodpasture, daughter of Winburn W. and 
Martha Ann (Capps) Goodpasture, married C. M. Hensley, 
a minister in the Methodist Church, about 1880. They now 
live in Birmingham, Alabama, and have two children. 

538. Ala M.. born in 1882. 

539. Ethel, born in 1883. . , , . 



286 GENEALOGY OF THE 

No. 177. 

Ala May Goodpasture, daughter of Winbuni W. and 
Martha Ann (Capps) Goodpasture, was never married. 

No. 178. 

Maggie L. Goodpasture, daughter of Winburn W. and 
Martha Ann (Capps) Goodpasture, married William G. Cur- 
rie, an estimable gentleman and an excellent lawyer, for- 
merly of Brownsville, but n.ow of Cookeville, Tennessee, 
about 1884. They have three children. 

540. Loula May, born January 27, 1887. 

541. Mattie Capps, born November 6, 1889. 

542. Winburn Goodpasture, born July 21, 1893. 

No. 179. 

Elmo C. Goodpasture, son of Winburn W. and Martha 
Ann (Capps) Goodpasture, is a merchant in Cliattanooga, 
Tennessee. He has never married. 

No. 186. 

Elizabeth Goodpasture, daughter of Hamilton and Eleanor 
(Ellyson) Goodpasture, mariied John Ford ( -1857), in 
1852, and had one child. She v/as married again to Samue^ 
M. Fancher ( -1863), March 3, 1858, and had two children. 
She was married a third time, to George W. Wilson, in 
January, 1873, and had three children. She lives in Pacific 
County, Washington. 

BY HER FIRST HUSBAND. 

543. A son, who died at the age of two years. 

BY HER SECOND HUSBAND. • 

544. Loyd Watson, born December, 1859. 

545. Kate, born June 1, 1861; died June 7, 1872. 

BY HER THIRD HUSBAND. 

546. Emerson J., born March 31, 1875. 

547. Howard M., born July 29, 1878. 

548. Olive Eleanor, born September 24, 1880. 



GOODPASTURE FAMILY. 287 

No. 187. 

Andrew Jackson Goodpasture, of Bay Centre, Washington, 
son of Hamilton and Eleanor (BUyson) Goodpasture, mar- 
ried Rebecca Scanlan, at Indianola, Warren County, Iowa, 
in 1866, and died in 1888, from lung disease contracted in 
the war. No children. 

No. 188. 

William Hamilton Goodpasture, son of Hamilton and 
Eleanor (EUyson) Goodpasture, enlisted in the 13th Iowa 
Infantry Volunteers, in 1861, and was killed in front of 
Atlanta, Ga., August 9, 1864. 

No. 189. 

Abraham Goodpasture, son of Hamilton and Eleanor 
(Ellyson) Goodpasture, was born in Morgan County, 
Illinois; at the age of sixteen, moved to Kansas, and lived 
there two years; moved to Iowa, and in 1878, settled at 
Anita, Cass County; is a contractor and builder. He mar- 
ried Arazona Almira Bidlake, March 24, 1868, and has eight 
children. 

549. Susan, born in 1869; died in September, 1878. 

550. Myra, born in 1872; died in October, 1878. 

551. Mary A., born in 1874. 

552. Charles H., born in 1876. 

553. Leonard R.. born in 1882. 

554. Theodore B., born in 1884. 

555. Mildred A., born in 1886. 

556. Ellen G., born in 1892. 

No. 190. 

John Ellyson Goodpasture, of Bay Centre, Washington, 
son of Hamilton and Eleanor (Ellyson) Goodpasture, mar- 
ried Sarah Ann Shockley, at Summerset, Warren County, 
Iowa, in 1870, and has had four children — one boy and three 
girls. 

557. G. Frank, born April 21, 1872. 

558. Minnie Alma, born March 21, 1876; died June 13, 
1895. 



388 GENEALOGY OF THE 

559. Alice May, born March 3, 1882. 

560. Edith Madge, born May 5, 1888. 

No. 191. 

James P. Goodpasture, son of Hamilton and Eleanor (El- 
lyson) Goodpasture, was bom in Hamilton County, Illinois; 
lived a while in Kansas; moA-ed to Iowa in 1860; thence to 
Oregon in 1870; and thence to Bay Centre, Washington, in 
1876. He has been twice married, first, to Edith R. Mat- 
thews ( -1885), in 1883; and, second, to Mrs. Delphia C. 
Sparks, in 1895. No children. 

No. 192. 

Martha Jane Goodpasture, daughter of Hamilton and 
Eleanor (Ellyson) Goodpasture, married Leonard M. Rhodes 
of Pacific County, Washington, in 1874, and died at Bay 
Centre, Washington, leaving two children. 

561. Carl, born in 1875. 

562. Elsie, born in 1879. 

No. 193. 

Thomas B. Goodpasture, of Sam's Valley, Jackson County, 
Oregon, son of Hamilton and Eleanor (Ellyson) Good 
pasture is a Methodist minister; married in 1876, and has 
had eight children. 

563. A daughter, died at the age of ten years. 

564. DeWitt, born in 1879. 

565. Ernest, born in 1882. 

566. Lloyd, born in 1884. 

567. Waine, born in 1886. 

568. Victor, born in 1890. 

569. Ira, born in 1892. 

570. John, born in 1894. 

No. 201. 

John J. Goodpasture, son of Francis M. and Lydia L. 
(Thomas) Goodpasture, married Lora Thompson, January 
21, 1894, and has two children. 

571. Benton Cordell, born April 9, 1895. 

572. Ethel, born January 30, 1897. 



GOODPASTURE FAMILY. 289 

No. 214. 

Lillie May Cooper, daughter of James and Sarah C. (Good- 
pasture) Cooper, married Charles Cooper, in September, 
1895. 

FIFTH GENERATION. 

No. 217. 

Bertie J. Scott, daughter of John M. and Ellen W. W. 
(Goodpasture) Scott, married W. G. Pannil, February 14, 
1888, and had one child. 

573. Hallie Bell, born December 15, 1888. 

No. 218. 

Milton Scott, son of Jno. M. and Ellen W. W. (Good- 
pasture) Scott, married Libbie Smith, February 21, 1894, 
and has one child. 

574. Walter Halph. 

No. 219. 

Mary Ellen Scott,daughter of John M. and Ellen W. W. 
(Goodpasture) Scott, married C. C. Killinger, February 2S, 
1894, and has one child. 

575. Hugh W. 

No. 225. 

Clarence Goodpasture, son of James L. and Mary (Hoof- 
nagle) Goodpasture, married Cordelia Akers, and has one 
child. 

576. Josphine. 

No. 226. 

Anna Clyde Goodpasture, daughter of James L. and Mary 
(Hoofnagle) Goodpasture, married George Vandergrift, and 
has two children. 

577. Glenna Lee, born January 22, 1892. 

578. James Thomas, born December 26, 1895. 

19 



290 GENEALOGY OF THE 

No. 227. 

John Henry Snider, son of William and Mary Terrel 
(Sprinkle) Snider, married Mary E. Wolfe, November 22, 
1866, and has one child. 

579. Josephine, born September 15, 1871. 

No. 228. 

William Hamilton Snider, son of William and Mary Ter- 
rel (Sprinkle) Snider, married Ann Eliza Oakes, February 
13, 1872. 

No. 229. 

Peter Terrel Snider, son of William and Mary Terrel 
(Sprinkle) Snider, married M. C. A. Killinger, February 11, 
1872. 

No. 232. 

Martha E. C. Snider, daughter of William and Mary Ter- 
rel (Sprinkle) Snider, married George A. Groseclose. in 
January, 1874, and has three children. 

580. Charles P., born October 26, 1875. 

581. Mary E., born September 27, 1878. 

582. Emma E., born September 20, 1881. 

No. 233. 

Lafayette McMullen Snider, son of William and M?ry 
Terrel (Sprinkle) Snider, is married and has three chil- 
dren. 

583. Bertha Lee, born May 26, 1885. 

584. Gracie Blanche, born February 23, 1889. 

585. Maud May, November 15, 1890. 

No. 235. 

A. R. F. Snider, son of William and Mary Terrel (Sprink- 
le) Snider, married Cora V. Hankie, December 21, 1887, and 
has four children. 

586. Gracie Pearl, born February 10, 1889. 

587. Mattie E.. born October 4, 1890. 

588. Lettie May, born May 28, 1893. 

589. Alma Gay, born April 3, 1897. 



GOODPASTURE FAMILY. 29I 

No. 237. 

Mary Susana Levisa Snider, daughter of William and 
Mary Terrel (Sprinkle) Snider, married Albert S. Good- 
pasture, September 1, 1887. See No. 239. 

No. 238. 

Alice Virginia Snider, daughter of William and Mary 
Terrel (Sprinkle) Snider, married William P. Falke, Febru- 
ary 17, 1897. 

No. 239. 

Albert S. Goodpasture, son of William Hamilton and Mary 
E. (Curren) Goodpasture, married Mary Susana Levisa 
Snider, September 1, 1887, and has four children. 

590. Leonia May, born September 23, 1888. 

591. Archie S., born August 30, 1891. 

592. Florence Alberta, born April 12, 1893. 

593. Early Page, born February 8, 1895. 

No. 240. 

David W. Goodpasture, son of William Hamilton and 
Margaret E. (Winbarger) (Goodpasture, married Dora 
Kegley, and has three children. 

594. Conley. 

595. Everett. 

596. Mary Gay. 

No. 241. 

Charles H. (Goodpasture, son of William Hamilton and 
Margaret E. (Winbarger) Goodpasture, married Gay Snider, 
and has had two children. 

597. Selma Gay, born June 5, 1895; died June 14, 1896. 

598. Hilda V.. born in May, 1897. 

No. 263. 

Mary L. Oarlock, daughter of John G. and Lucinda 
(Musick) Carlock, married Robert L. Sabin, June 20, 1877, 
and resides at Beatrice, Nebraska. She has five children, 
but the names of the youngest two are not known. 



3^2 GKNEALOGY OF THE 

599. Ralph M., born in 1878. 
. . 600. Robert L., born in 1880. 

601. Mary Louise, born in 1883. 

No, 264. 

Richard L. Carlock, son of John G. and Lucinda (Mustek) 
Garlock, married Sallie M. Dunlap, January 15, 1879, and has 
one child. 

602. Claud, born in 1881. 

No. 266. 

S. Gertrude Carlock, daughter of John G. and Lucinda 
(Musick) Carlock, married Harvey L. Kart, June 15, 1888, 
and resides in Bloomington, Illinois. She has two children. 

603. Harvey L., born in 1891. 

604. Alfred T., born in 1894. 

No. 272. 

Rosalie Carlock, daughter of Madison P. and Nancy E. 
(Judy) Carlock, married Thomas J. Mountjoy, and left -w - 
children. 

605. Holton C. 

606. Wayne B. 

No. 273. 

George W. Carlock, son of Madison P. and Nancy E. 
(Judy) Carlock, married Ella Martin, February 28, 1884, and 
resides in Omaha, Nebraska. He has four children. 
• 607. Frederick, born in 1884. 

608. Maggie, born in 1886. 

609. Clinton, born in 1889. 

610. Helen, born in 1895. 

No. 274. 

John A. Carlock, son of Madison P. and Nancy E. (Judy) 
Carlock, married Clara Gordon, June 15, 1890, and has one 
child. 

611. Colby C, born in 1892. 



GOODPASTURE FAMII^Y. 293 

No. 275. 

Ida M. Carlock, daughter of Madison P. and Nancy B. 
(Judy) Carlock, married Jesse B. Jordan, October 2. 1891. 
and has had two children. 

612. Cecil Marie, who died in infancy. 

613. Jessie Hellene, born in 1894. 

No. 276. 

Horace L. Carlock. son of Madison P. and Nancy E. 
(Judy) Carlock, married Ollie Thompson, January 1, 1886, 
and has four children. 

614. Ralph T. 

615. Neva. 

616. Cleon. 

617. Holton. 

No. 277. 

Lyman J. Carlock, son of Madison P. and Nancy E. (Judy) 
Carlock, married Mabelle Riddle, September 1, 1893, and 
has one child. 

618. Lael Marie, born in 1895. 

No. 279. 

Lina Gennette Carlock, daughter of Madison P. and Nancy 
E. (Judy) Carlock, married John W. Applegate, March 10, 
1894, and has one child. 

619. Grace Modelle, born in 1896. 

No. 285. 

Hattie Brown, daughter of Jacob M. and Nancy J. (Car- 
lock) Brown, married William Taylor, May 16, 1873, and 
resides in or near Little Rock, Arkansas. She has several 
children, whose names are not known. 

No. 287. 

Cora Brown, daughter of Jacob M. and Nancy J. (Car- 
lock) Brown, married James Bacon, June 16, 1892. N ■ 
further information. 



294 GENBALOGY OF THE 

No. 288. 

Zepheniah Allen, son of William and Sarah (Carlock) 
Allen, married Belle Center, October 10, 1891, and resides ai 
Normal, Illinois. He has two children. 

620. Lucille, born in 1893. 

621. Mildred, born in 1895. 

No. 289. 

William P. Marley, son of William P. and Sarah (Caii^clt^ 
Marley, manned Nellie Bergen, November 15, 1890, and 
resides at Peoria, Illinois. He has two children. 

622. Robert Cedric, born in 1891. 

623. Lucette Marjorie, born in 1893. 

No. 291. 

Albert W. Gaddis, son of Benjamin and Mahala (Carlock) 
Gaddis, is married and has four children. No other in- 
formation. 

No. 316. 

William Thomas Dale, son of William Jackson and 
Leanna (Butler) Dale, lives in Clay County, Tennessee. 
He married Mollie Quarles ( -1897), in 1879, and has four 
children. 

624. Robert. 

625. Walter. 

626. James. 

627. A girl. 

No. 317. 

Martha Dale, daughter of William Jackson and Leanna 
(Butler) Dale, married Hugh Kyle, of Clay County, Ten- 
aessee, February 22, 1874, and has had five children. 

628. Millard Jackson, born December 10, 1875. 

629. Floyd, born August 30, 1877; died in 1880 or 1881. 

630. Charles Lee, born April 30, 1880. 

631. Frank, born in May, 1882. 

632. Lizzie, bom in July, 1887. 



GOODPASTURE FAMILY. 295 

No. 318. 
James Dale, son of William Jackson and Leanna (Butler) 
Dale, married MoUie Chandler, about 1887, and ha* children. 
No. 319. 

Jennie Le« Dale, daughter of William Jackson and 
Leanna (Butler) Dale, married Stephen S. Kirk (1852- ) 
July 28, 1878. They live in Dallas, Texas, and have four 
children. 

633. Eula Dale, born July 13, 1881. 

634. Annie Lola, born January 1, 1883. 

635. Ralph Carl, born December 4, 1885. 

636. Paul Toof, born January 14, 1888. 

No. 320. 

Martha Butler, daughter of L. B. and Elizabeth (Dale) 
Butler, mar-ried W. C. Bailey, about 1869, and has had six 
children. 

637. A daughter. 

638. Lizzie. 

639. Benjamin. 

640. Jennie, now dead. 

641. James. 

642. Allie. 

No. 321. 

Louisa Butler, daughter of L. B. and Elizabeth (Dale) 
Butler married Reuben Beck, of Butler's Landing, Ten- 
nessee, and has children. 

No. 323. 

Jane Ann Butler, daughter of L. B. and Elizabeth (Dale) 
Butler, mai-ried Amonett Kirkpatrick, in 1874, and has had 
one child. 

643. Bedford, born in 1876; died in December, 1884. 

No. 325. 

John Butler, son of L. B. and Elizabeth (Dale) Butler, 
married a Miss Hampton, and resides at Butler's Landing, 
Tennessee. 



296 GENEALOGY OF THE 

No. 326. 

Bettie Dale, daughter of Cleon E. and Frances P. (Cliism) 
Dale, married R. T. Peterman, of Celina, Tennessee, Octo- 
ber 4, 1880, and has had nine boys. 

644. J. H., born August 11, 1881. 

645. W. R., born Februaiy 4, 1883. 

646. C. E., born November 26, 1885. 

647. A. C, born April 8, 1887. 

648. R. v., born March 27, 1889. 

649. S. F., born January 6, 1891. 

650. J. I., born February 18, 1S93. 

651. G. B., born December 22, 1894. 

652. H. B., born September 10, 1896. 

No. 327. 

Ann Dale, daughter of Cleon E. and Frances P. (Chism) 
Dale, married T. L. Meadows, in January, 1894. and has jne 
child. 

653. Inez. 

No. 328. 

Andrew Dale, son of Cleon E. and Frances P. (Chism) 
Dale, married Lizzie Peterman, in 1882, and has seven chil- 
dren. 

654. Tennie, born in 1883. 

655. Cheatham. 

656. R. T. 

No. 329. 

Bennett Dale, son of Cleon E. and Frances P. (Chism) 
Dale, married a Miss Moore, about 1889 or 1890. and has one 
child. 

657. A girl. 

No. 335. 

Ada Dale, daughter of Cleon E. and Prances P. (Chism) 
Dale, married , December 25. 1896. 

No. 336. 

Russell Aubry Dale, son of Alfred Lafayette and Sallie 
(Butler) Dale, married a Miss Hinton. 



GOODPASTURE FAMILY. 297 

No. 337. 

Jake Bennett Dale, s ;n of Alfred Lafayette; and Sallis 
<Butler) Dale, is married. 

No. 345. 

Marcellus C. Dale, son of Andrew C. and Jane Ann 
(Chownlng) Dale, married Ollie Carter, February' 22, 1892. 
and has had three children. 

658. Elsie, born in December, 1892; died in August, 189S. 

659. Ernestine, born December 23, 1893. 
€60. Gertrude, born in March, 1894. 

No. 346. 

Etta Dale, daughter of Andrew C. and Jane Ann (Cnowu- 
ing) Dale, married John E. Binns, of Davidson County, 
Tennessee, Januai-y 28, 1895, and has one child. 

661. Andrew Dale, bora May 23, 1897. 

No. 356. 

Lizzie Bennett, daughter of Jake C. and Dulcena (Dale) 
Bennett, married James Speck, in 1893, and has one child. 

662. A daughter. 

No. 357. 

Mattie Dale, daughter of Jake C. and Dulcena (Dale> 
Bennett, married Dr. J. E. Sidwell, in 1890, and hae two 
children. 

663. A son. 

664. A son. 

No. 361. 

Edgar Bennett, son of Jake C. and Dulcena (Dale) Ben- 
nett, married a Miss Maxwell, in 1895. 

No. 367. 

Amos Dillard Bates, son of William Iredell, and Majy 
Ann (Robertson) Batefe, married Florena Irene Seaton, Sep- 
tember 20. 1882, and has one child. 

665. Charles R., born April 15. 1884. 



293 GENEALOGY OF THE 

No. 368. 

Myra Josephine Bates, daughter of William Iredell and 
Mary Ann (Robertson) Bates, married James R. Guthrie 
September 27, 1882, and has four children. 

666. Maude M., barn July 29, 1883. 

667. Myrtle Irene, bom January 12, 1885. 

668. Ethel Reaugh, born December 2, 1886. 

669. James Ralph, born June 9, 1890. 

No. 369. 

Ida Frances Bates, daughter of William Iredell and Mary 
Ann (Robertson) Bates, married David Lee Meyers, Febiu- 
ary 6, 1889, and has two children. 

670. Harry Robertson, born March 28, 1893. 

671. Justin Tinsmore, born November 14, 1895. 

No. 370. 

Mary EfBe Bates, daughter of William Iredell and Mary 
Ann (Robertson) Bates, married James Anderson Mc.\nulty, 
April 16, 1885, and has two children. 

672. Arthur Dean, bora January 10, 1886. 

673. Grace Irene, born April 8, 1888. 

No. 371. 

William Eddy Bates, son of William Iredell and Mary Ann 
(Robertson) Bates, married Lillie Marshall, January 10. I88H, 
and has four children. 

674. Bessie, born September 2, 1889. 

675. Neva Don, born October 27, 1893. 

676. Clarence Dillard, born May 3, 1895. 

677. William Eddy, born February 4, 1887. 

No. 373. 

Joseph Marcus Bates, son of William Iredell and Majy 
Ann (Robertson) Bates, married Nora Earl, December 20, 
1893. No children. 

No. 375. 

John Frankfin Downing, son of William and Mary Elzada 
(Bates) Downing, was twice married, first, to Seliua Tvowrey, 



GOODPASTURE FAMILY. 299 

September 12, 1872; second, to Lillie M. Elliot, May 3, 1892. 
He has one child. 

BY HIS FIRST WIFE. 

678. Albert W., bom September 19, 1875. 

No. 376. 

Joseph Henry Downing, son of William and Maiy Elzada 
(Bates) Downing, manied Anna Tipton, June 16, 1880, and 
has had two children. 

679. Jessie, born August 2, 1893. 

680. Robert, born August 8, 1896; died September 30, 1897. 

No. 377. 

Albert Rezin Downing, son of William and Mary Elzada 
(Bates) Downing, married Emma Strickler, April 11, 1888, 
and has one child. 

681. William Strickler, born March 6, 1896. 

No. 378. 

Jessie Viola Downing, daughter of William and Mary 
Elzada (Bates) Etowning, married Mathew F. Smith, April 
7, 1887, and has two children. 

682. Ray Franklin, born January 14, 1889. 

683. Henry Mathew, born January 18, 1895. 

No. 381. 

John E. Bates, son of Thomas J. and Leonora (Wilson) 
Bates, mai-ried Clara White, February 13, 1889, and has 
two children. 

684. Harry W., born October 3, 1891. 

685. J. Russell, born December 12, 1894. 

No. 382. 

Henson E. Bates, son of Thomas J. and Leonora (Wil- 
son) Bates, married Hattie Sawyer, June 6, 1890, and has 
two children. 

686. Floyd Bailey, born March 8, 1891. 

687. Esther Sawyer, born May 3, 1893. 



300 GENEALOGY OF THE 

No. 383. 

Henry M. Bates, son of Thomas J. and Leonora (Wilson) 
Bates, married Mary Adams. November 28, 1888, and lias 
two children. 

688. Myrl Meron, born December 5, 1889. 

689. Charles Emmett, born October 20, 1891. 

No. 384. 

Carrie G. Bates, daughter of Thomas J. and Leonora. 
(Wilson) Bates, married Samuel McClintock, April 15, 1891. 
and has two children. 

690. Carl Everett, born August 29, 1892. 

691. Forrest Bates, born August 9, 1896. 

No. 388. 

George Latimer Bates, son of Madison C. and Emma 
(Latimer) Bates, is in West Central Africa, making scientific 
collections of birds, animals, flowers, and plants. 

No. 389. 

Eula Goodpasture Bates, daughter of Madison C. and 
Emma (Latimer) Bates, is a missionary in Hadgin. Turkey. 

No. 390. 

Mary Drumon Bates, daughter of Madison C. and Emma 
(Latimer) Bates, married A. I. Sargent, a dentist, of Hunt^ 
ington. West Virginia, June 24, 1896, and has one child. 

692. Constance, born September 29, 1897. 

No. 393. 

Lizzie May Thomas, daughter of David R. and Margery- 
Josephine (Bates) Thomas, married Dr. H. H. Littlefield. 
November ?A. 1887, and has one child. 

693. Eula Belle, born September 27, 1888. 

No. 394. 

Nancy Josephine Thomae.daughter of David R. and Mar- 
gery Josephine (Bates) Thomas, married Z. H. Sexton, 
September 23, 18S5, and had one child. 

694. Josephine, died May 7, 1887. 



GOODPASTURE FAMILY. 301 

No. 395. 

Edith Allegra Thomas, daughter of David R. and Margery 
Josephine (Bates) Thomas, married H. C. Smith December 

7, 1892, and has one child. 

695. Ethel Z., born September 30, 1893. 

No. 398. 

Lottie Maud Thomas, daughter of David R. and Margery 
Josephine (Bates) Thomas, married D. H. Flickwis, ?.Iarch 

8, 1891, and has three children. 

696. Josephine, born November 26. 1891. 

697. Helen, born December 8, 1892. 

698. Hallie N., born March 29, 1894. 

No. 407. 

Margaret Josephine Breese.daughter of Leland S. and 
Margaret Ann (Bates) Breese, married William Hugh 01m- 
Bted, August 8, 1894, and has one child. 

699. Cordelia Browne, born May 12, 1895. 

No. 414. 

Alpha Dale, daughter of W. A. and Rebecca (Lewis) Dale, 
married L. K. Edge, in 1881, and has four children. 

700. Howard. 

701. Loy. 

702. Ova. ] 

703. Glaidest. 

No. 415. 

Cora Dale, daughter of W. A. and Rebecca (Lewis) Dale, 
married M. M. Martin, in 1884, and has four children. 

704. Winburn. 
705." Raymond. 

706. Oliver. 

707. A girl. 

No. 416. 

Levina Dale, daughter of W. A. and Rebecca (Lewis) 
Dale, married E. E. Rountree, in 1888, and has four chil- 
dren — three girls and a boy. 



302 GKNEALOCiY OF THE 

708. Jewell. 

709. Willie. 

710. Lucy. 

711. Ward L. 

No. 417. 

Thomas A. Dale, son of W. A. and Rebecca (Lewis) Dale, 
married .Josephine Emerson, in February, 1895. and has one 
child. 

712. Irene. 

No. 420. 

Flora Dale, daughter of John W. and Martha (Rountree) 
Dale, married a Mr. Ingram, and lives at Black Jack Grove, 
Texas. They have three children. 

No. 421. 

John T. Rountree, son of J. M. and Martha M. (Dale) 
Rountree, married Myrtle Pyle, and has one child. 

713. Lawrence. 

No. 429. 

Nettie Goodpasture, daughter of Andrew S. and Mary Jane 
(Fletcher) Goodpasture. maiTied William Foster, and has 
one child. 

714. Ivan. 

No. 430. 

Henry Fletcher Goodpastui'e, son of Andrew S. and Mary 
Jane (Fletcher) Goodpasture, married Amy Caldwell, 
December 25, 1894, and has one child. 

715. Gladys Marie, born September 10, 1896. 

No. 413. 

Andrew Ward Goodpasture, son of Andrew S. and Mary 
Jane (Fletcher) Goodpasture, married Claudia Williamson, 
June 20, 1895. 

No. 436. 

Marshall Goodpasture, son of William E. Goodpasture 
married Pheby Chenney. 



GOODPASTURE FAMILY. 303 

No. 452. 

Edwin R. GcwDdpastiire, son of J. Dillard and Frances H. 
(Obanion) Goodpasture, was born in Morgan County. 
Illinois, and moved with his father to Holt County, Missouri, 
where he is a progressive farmer, and an extensive breeder 
and feeder of live stock. He married Cora (1872- ), 
daughter of William and Elizabeth Shields, September 20, 
1893, and has one child. 

716. Clyde M., born June 20, 1894. 

No. 453. 

Abraham H. Goodpasture, son of J. Dillard and France* 
H. (Obanion) Goodpasture, was born in Holt County, Mis- 
souri, where he is an energetic and successful young farmer, 
a school director, and member of the Methodist Church. He 
married Josephine (1871- ), daughter of Robert and 
Lucinda Medsker, December 2, 1891. 

No. 454. 

Deedie A. Goodpasture, daughter of J. Dillard and Frances 
H. (Obanion) Goodpasture, was born in Holt County, Mis- 
souri, and educated at Cameron and St. Joseph. She mar 
ried James E. Weller, son of Ernest F. and Ruth Weller, 
September 16,1896. Her husband is cashier of the Farmers 
Bank, of Maitland, where they have a beautiful home. 
They have one child. 
■ 717. Hiram Dillard, born September 22, 1897. 

No. 455. 

Mary E. C. Goodpasture, daughter of J. Dillai'd and 
Itances H. (Obanion) Goodpasture, was born In Holt 
County, Missouri, and was educated in the Maitland High 
School, where she graduated in 1895, and was valedictorian 
of her class. She is a member of the Methodist Church, in 
Maitland, Assistant Superintendent of its Sunday School, 
and President of its Epworth League. 



304 GENKAI.OGY OF THK 

No. 456. 

George B. Goodpasture, son of J. Dillard and Frances H. 
(Obanion) Goodpasture, wes born in Holt County, Missouri, 
where he is enga.ged in farming and stock raising. He mar- 
ried. Grace M. (1876- ), daughter of William and Alice 
Niite, February 12, 1896. 

No. 457. 

Vrenna J. Goodpasture, daughter of J. Dillard and Frances 
H. (Obanion) Goodpasture, was bom in Holt County, Mis- 
souri, and is now in school at Maitland. 

No. 458. 

Ethel Frances Goodpasture,daughter of J. Dillard and 
Frances H. (Obanion) Goodpasture, was bom in Holt 
County, Missouri, and is now in school at Maitland. 

No. 460. 

Isabelle Webster, daughter of W. G. and Hattie E. (Good- 
pasture) Webster, was born in Sangamon County, Illinois, 
and graduated in the High School, at Petersburg, in 1895. 

No. 468. 

Ella MitcheH, daughter of L. A. and Tennessee G. (Hinds) 
Mitchell married F. C. Freeman, of Weakley County, Ten- 
nessee. 

No. 469. 

Dillard C. Mitchell, son of L. A. and Tennessee G. (Hinds) 
Mitchell, married Addie L. T^ng, of Robertson County, Ten- 
nessee. 

No. 471. 

Nancy E. Mitchell, daughter of L. A. and Tennessee G. 
(Hinds) Mitchell, married a Mr. Brown, of Texas. 

No. 474. 

Luvada Hinds, daughter of John S. and T. A. (Jones) 
Hinds, married D. W. Higglnbotham. of Mississippi. 



GOODPASTURE FAMILY. 305 

No. 475. 

MoUie Hinds, daughter of John S. and T. A. (Jones) 
Hinds, married M. M. Davie, of Mississippi. 

No. 496. 

Mary Hettie Mitchell, daughter of Isaiah W. and Sophi"o- 
nie C. (Winton) Mitchell, married B. L. Speck, of Livings- 
ton, Tennessee, January 10, 1895. 



INDEX. 



iKi 



Ajudalaemu Jacks, 326. 
Andalnsism Women, 150. 
Appendix, 243. 

Arnold, Capt. Jesse, Sketch of, 16. 
Atchison, Dr. T. A., Anecdotes 
of, 93. 

Baccariza, Seuor, Mentioned, 138. 
Baily, Francis, Mentioned, 10. 
Barcelona, 176. 

Barrett, Senator, Mentioned, 98. 
Barton, T. T., Sketch of, 22. 
Bate, Gen. W. B., Mentioned, 109. 
Bates, Joseph, Sketch of, 46. 
Bates, T. ¥., Sketch of, 53. 
Baxter, Nathaniel, Mentioned, 61. 
Bayard, Hon. Thomas F., Men- 
tioned, 109. 
Beaty, Tinker Dave, Noticed, 75. 
Benton, Thos. H., Mentioned, 62. 
Bransford, Thos. L., Quoted, 34. 
Bright, Jno. M., Quoted, 46. 
Brown, B. Q-ratz, Mentioned, 63. 
Brown, Daniel, Mentioned, 16, 26. 
Bruce, Blanche K. , Mentioned, 109. 
Bull Fight, 168. 

Campbell, L. R., Mentioned, 107, 
110, 118, 121, 125. 

Carter, Mr., Mentioned, 95. 

Caruthers, Abraham, Sketch of, 45. 

Catalonian Jacks, 228. 

Charleston Convention, Tlie, No- 
ticed, 60. 

Christian, George, Noticed, 29. 

Courtois & Co., 193. 

Crockett, Bobt., Mentioned, 7. 

Cross, Edward, Noticed, 35. 

Crossa, Monsieur, Anecdotes of, 
201. 

Cullom Family, The, Noticed, 33. 

Cullom, Alvin, Sketch of, 33. 

Cullom, Wm., Sketch of, 37. 

Curry, Hon. J. L. M., Mentioned, 
109, 135. 

Democratic Convention, The Na- 
tional, Noticed, 63. 
Dickenson, John, Sketch of, 21. 
-Dillard, John L., Noticed, .53. 
Dillen, Jacob, Noticed, 59. 
Drury Lane Theater, 1"26. 

Hsk, Moses, Skbtch of, 18. 
Tiek, Mose-s Madison, College Story 
•T, 31. 



Gardenhire, F>. L., Sketch of, ;iO. 

Garrett, Elijah, Noticed, 47. 

Goodpasture Family, The, Noticed, 
8; Genealogy, 245. 

Goodpasture, A.V. , Mentioned, 105. 

Goodpasture, James, Noticed, 9. 

Goodpasture, James M., Sketch of, 
54. 

Goodpasture, Jefferson D., Birth 
and early life, 15 ; Goes for the 
mail, 22; Early recollections, 25; 
Enters .school, 28 ; Works on the 
farm, 27; Sees a Governor, 28: 
Goes into business, 39; Rescues 
his pigs, 30: In the debating so- 
ciety, 31 : Determines to study 
law, 33; "Singing geography," 
42 ; Clerk and master, 44 : Enters 
Lebanon law school, 44; Writes 
Elijah Garrett's will, 47; As a 
trader, 52; Buns for Congress, 
56; Marries, 58; At the Charles- 
ton Convention, 60; Delegate to 
the National Democratic Con- 
vention, 62 ; Elected to the State 
Senate, 63 ; Opposes conventional 
rate of interest, 63 ; Favors quad- 
riennial elections, 63 ; Chairman 
of investigating committee, 64: 
Bemoves to the country, 72; Ex- 
tract from letter, 72 ; Visited by 
a mysterious horseman, 73; 
Writes a pass, 73; Death of his 
mother, 74 ; Openin^of the courts 
after the war, 75, Hidden treas- 
ure, 77; Family afflictions, 77; 
Marries again, 78; Takes his boys 
to college, 79 ; Letter to his sons, 
80 ; Moves to Nashville, a5 ; Builds 
a home, 87 ; Other building oper- 
ations, 88 ; The courts, 90 ; Opens 
a law office, 92; Has pneumonia, 
93 ; Continues building, 95 ; Makes 
political speech, 97 ; His law 
practice, 98; Real estate pur- 
chases, 100 ; Characteristic Anec- 
dotes of, 101 ; Confidence of peo- 
ple in, 104; Determines to im- 
port jacks, 105; Leaves for New 
York, 108; Visits Washington 
and sees Congress, 108; Arrives 
in New York, 110 ; Sails for Liver- 
pool, 117 ; The stop in Liverpool, 
131; Visits London, 135; Goes to 
Paris, 139; Visits Madrid and 
meets Amerioan minister. 135; 



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Q-oes to Coi-dova, lotf; Searches 
for jacks, 139; Makes excursion 
to the country, 141 ; Secures a 
fast friend, 143; Sells jacks to 
Dr. Plumlee, 144; Describes Cor- 
dova in letter, 145; Gets lost in 
Malaga, 148 ; Describes trip from 
Malaga to London, 151 ; Describes 
sections of London, 155 ; Sails for 
home, 156; Describes storm at 
sea, 156; Arrival home, 159; 
Starts for second importation, 
160 ; Writes of trip to New York, 
161 ; Sails for London, 162 ; Writes 
of trip to Brighton, 162; Goes to 
Paris, 162; Trip to Barcelona, 
1(33; Engages interpreter, 166; 
Scfs a bull fight, 168; Purchases 
jacks. 177; Goes to Marseilles, 
180 ; Stops at Cettc and Almeria, 
184; Jack losses, 185; Sails for 
Home, 186 ; Arrives at Brooklyn, 
187; Tries lawsuit in Supreme 
Court, 188; Prepares for third 
importation, 189; Lands in Bor- 
deaux, 190; Visits French fairs, 
191; Leaves for Pyrenees, 192; 
Drives over the mountains, 194 ; 
Leads jack from Bourg-Madame 
to Tarascon, 198; Sails for New 
York, 200; Visits Mexico, 205: 
Leaves to import horses, 210 ; Sees 
many attractions in London. 
211 ; Purchases horses, 215 ; Makes 
another importation of jacks 
217; Purchases around Lanne 
mazan, 219 ; Goes to Poitou and 
makes large purchases, 219 ; Vis 
its Toulouse, 221 ; Sails for home 
222 ; Sickness and death, 238. 

Goodpasture, John, Settles on Buf- 
falo Creek, 12; Marries Margery 
Bryan, 12; Raises a family. 13 
His character, 13. 

Goodpasture, John R., Mentioned 
97,98. 

Goodpasture, Wm. H., Mentioned 
72, 98, 105, 140, 142, 178, 203. 

Goodpasture, W. W., Mentioned 
109. 

Great Eastern, ^Described, 195. 

Hart, Alfred, Mentioned, 108. 
Hickman, J. E., Sketch of, 78. 
Hilham, Laid out, 20. 
Hill, Capt. R. H., Mentioned, 107. 
Hinds Family, The, Noticed, 17. 
Houk, Judge L. C, Mentioned, 109. 
Huntsman, Adam, Noticed, 35. 

Jackson, R. P.. Mentioned. 107, 110. 
117. 120. 127. 



j Lane, Parker, Anecdote of, 18. 

Logsdon, vs. The State, Noticed, fi4. 
I London, 125. 
j "Long Hunters,'" Mentioned, 6. 

I McHenrv, Jas. W., Noticed, 86. 
j Madrid, "133. 
j Majorca, 178. 

Majorca Jacks, 231. 
I Marchbanks Family, The. No- 
I ticed, 59. 

Marchbanks, A. J., Noticed, 34; 
i Sketch of, 43. 

I Maxey, Sam Bell, Sketch of, 112. 
I Michaux,F. A.,Cited, 6;Quoted,ll. 

Morgan, Speaker, Mentioned, 98. 

Mountain District, The, Noticed, 6. 

i Newspapers, Foreign. 119. 

I 

Old Union Meeting House, 31. 
I Overton County Established, 7. 
Overton, John. Noticed, 8. 

Palmer, W. B., Mentioned, 107. 110, 

111, 118. 
Paris 130 

Pike, 'Albert, Noticed, 60. 
Poitou Jacks, 238. 
Porter, Gov. Jas. D., Mentioned, iott. 
Plumlee, Dr. B. S., Mentioned, 144. 

Railroad Trains, Foreign, 124. 
Ridley, B. L., Sketch of, 43. 
Ripley, E. W., Quoted, 18. 
Roaring River, Described, 6. 
Ryan, Drs. John and Alvis. Men- 
tioned, 101. 

Savage, John H., Noticed, 57, 103. 
Sevier Family, The, Noticed, 24. 
Smith, Senator L. T. , Mentioned,98. 
Sutlierland, C. L., Mentioned, 218. 

Terry, John, Mentioned, 108, m, 

129, 134, 158, 196. 
Totten Family, The, Noticed, 16. 
Troxdale vs. The State, Noticed, 6». 
Turney, Sam, Anecdotes of, 68. 
Twain", Mark. Noticed. 6«V 

Walker, Wm., Mentioned, 35. 
Waller, Gov., Mentioned, 128. 
Walton Road, Described, 10. 
Walton, Wm., Sketch of, 10. 
Williams, Sampson, Noticed, 6. 
Witchcraft, Trial for, 66. 
Wright, Gen. Luke, Mentloae* 
98. 






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